Artist Statement
As a mixed media painter surrounded by the beauty of the Berkshires, I aim to capture nature’s essence rather than its depiction. As I traverse the lush, rolling green hills in summer and the stark, winter landscape, it’s a gift to glimpse a fox, a bear, an early sunrise, and a brilliant sunset. Yet, in my work, I am compelled to communicate complex, fragmented dichotomy between nature’s outward perfection and its inner, and uncertain future.
Exhibits
2025
Dreamscapes: Journeys into Nature, Guild of Berkshire Artists at Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA Jurors: Cynthia Wick, Anastasia Traina & Matthew Larkin.
2024
Disturbances, Two Person Show, Bromfield Gallery Boston MA
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror: Mike Carroll
Musings on Nature, Berkshire Guild of Artists at Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA, Jurors: Cynthia Wick, Matthew Larkin, & Mike Beck
2023
Petaled Vessels & Painted Papers, Two Person Show, Art on Main, West Stockbridge, MA
Showing Up: The Practice of Art, Belmont, MA
Small Works, Art on Main, West Stockbridge, MA
Backstory Three, Concord Art Association. Concord, MA, Juror: Kelley Lehr
2022
Sense of Place, Juried Show, Concord Art Association. Concord, MA
Rather Stormy, Juried Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2021
Shifting Narrative #1, Juried Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Classes and Workshops
2024
MassMOCA Workshop Residency with Judith Kruger
2022
Interior Space, Peter Van Dyck, Black Pond Studio
Shape + Form Workshop, Nancy Gruskin, Concord Art Association
2021
Abstract Watercolor, YoAhn Han, Cambridge Art Association + Massachusetts College of Art
2020
Color Theory, Julia Talcott
The Painterly Print, Adria Arch
2019
The Art of Woodcut, Julia Talcott, Maud Morgan Arts
Accidents Will Happen: Viscosity Monotype, Joyce Silverstone, Truro Center for the Arts
2016 - Present,
Painterly Collage, Workshops, Alexandra Sheldon
2015
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Summer Conference “Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process”
Employment + Affiliations
2024-present Bromfield Gallery Member, SOWA, Boston MA
2019-2021 Teaching, Wentworth Institute, Boston, Interior Design Studios
2011- 2022 Harrod Design Research LLC, Sole Proprietor
1987- 2011 Sasaki Associates, Principal
Education
BS in Interior Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio