I was an artist as early as I can remember. I have been a professional artist for over 30 years. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts in painting at Binghamton University, I taught for Broome Community College community education and Southern Tier Arts in Education.  I received a grant to support an exhibition of landscapes portraying the Chenango Canal site.  I have been represented by Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC and have exhibited in Syracuse, Owego, Binghamton and Angelica, New York.  My work is on permanent display at: Temple Concord, Binghamton, NY;

St. Anthony of Padua Church, Endicott, NY; NBT Bank, Binghamton, NY; and a local restaurant the Blue Dolphin in Owego, NY.

     I was born into an Italian family in Endicott. As a child I was always fascinated by texture, patterns and colors as well as natural objects. I would draw with lipstick, weave with tree branches, try to carve bricks or build with pine cones. I even did spinart with my record player. 

     I was primarily a landscape oil painter until the year 2000 when I began encaustic painting.  I came to the process of encaustic painting through a desire for brighter color and more texture as well as a need to be more in touch with my inner child.  This began with an investigation of using a candle to melt and draw with crayons that I saved from childhood.  Along this process I made my own encaustic sticks until I discovered readymade R & F paints. The materials available often guide how and what I create. After years of working with this medium I was forced to quit for health reasons.

     Now I embrace once again working with acrylic paint in my current paintings of the Water series. Here my desire is to create movement, flow and rhythm as well as connect with my internal balance. Over and over again, I find that what I am called to create is exactly what my soul needs at that time.

     Like all artists, I want my work to be viewed and enjoyed. This site, then, is my way of reaching out beyond my corner of the world. I hope you find a measure of what I am feeling as I live in nature and record in my studio her sights, sounds, smells and peace.​