Nature is my main inspiration, creating is part of my soul, and though I have taken other career paths through life, I have always had the need to create. I grew up in Indiana, earned my BFA at Antioch College in Ohio, and have been living in the Pacific Northwest ever since. Encaustic has been my primary medium for decades, until recently feeling the need to just get out the paper, ink, glue, a few tubes of paint and whatever materials I happen to have around, in order to have a creative daily practice I can mix in with my accounting work (my studio is also a home office). My work/play space has been overflowing with leftover fabric these days, so these scraps have become what launch my creations of late. I thoroughly enjoy the process of utilizing what is around me and transforming materials into the unexpected.