My visual life began in Cleveland, Ohio with visits to its museum and drawing classes in its galleries and in a house in whose basement my mother began to paint late in life. After finishing college in Boston I took drawing and painting classes in the evening programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Mass College of Art and worked on large, abstract canvases in a studio in a warehouse building in Somerville, MA. I found my way to printmaking with a group called EES Arts in downtown Boston where I experimented with traditional etching and aquatint techniques and simultaneously created a series of three-dimensional pieces I called “Twentieth Century Reliquaries” from Styrofoam packing shapes in an homage to Joseph Cornell. Moving to Irvine, CA in 1998 I found the Irvine Fine Arts Center and thanks to classes there I was pointed back to printmaking on a smaller scale and introduced to the techniques I use today in my studio.