In the 1980’s, she founded a graphic design business and suspended her interest in photography to build a clientele and serve customer needs. Ten years ago, she purchased her first Canon digital camera…and has focused her energy and passion in capturing the mysteries of the hidden, quiet depths of landscape and macro photography.

Her work is often described as a “wabi-sabi” approach to photography. “Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic appreciation of the evanescence of life. Wabi-sabi images force us to contemplate our own mortality. They evoke an existential loneliness and tender sadness. Things wabi-sabi have a vague, blurry quality. Once hard edges take on a soft pale glow. The luxuriant tree of summer is now only withered branches under a winter sky. Once-bright saturated colors fade into muddy earth tones or the smoky hues of dawn and dusk”, as described by Leonard Koren.

In her landscapes, she is drawn to that mysterious lighting and the emotional atmosphere that is created by low-lying fog or rain or snow, that minor or hidden scene that patiently unfolds itself. Her macro work reflects her ability to use ambient light enhancing both the subject matter and the background, creating an almost “chiaroscuro” effect, the painting style using light and shadow, color or absence of color.

Her creative inspiration comes from the powerful black and white visions of Michael Kenna, John Sexton and Cole Thompson, and the color work of Georgia O’Keefe and the great 17th C. artist, Caravaggio.