My collage art is characterized by a lush abundance of color and texture. These intricate collages have multiple artistic roots, including mosaics, stained glass, Japanese ukiyo-e prints and textiles, modern western quilts, my own sewing background, and my work with textures and multiple exposures in photography.  All of these influences mix and overlay patterns, as I do in my collages.

Although collage plays a large role in most of my abstract and figure art, most unusual are my non objective pattern collages, which create dynamic and alluring worlds of ambiguous depth.  These collages are built up of layers of textures and decorative pieces in a quilt-like manner. Although their strong color and form may initially attract attention, the detail in these collages becomes ever more interesting the longer one looks at them.

My collage art also includes figure drawing and painting combining decorative patterns with the human figure.  Many of my figure drawings and paintings are quick and spontaneous, but often I work them into complex and sophisticated visual compositions in collage, with overlaid elements providing spatial illusions.