Artist’s Statement
For artists, making art is a fundamental need, just like the need for food, clothing and shelter. This means extra trouble in the balancing act that life requires of us all - it means keeping an extra ball in the air. Here follows the short version of how it has worked for me.

I studied painting in the late 60’s at Washington University in St. Louis, and at the San Francisco Art Institute with Bay Area figurative painters. After leaving school my work continued in the abstract idiom. I was then a young woman with no visible means of support, and a lot of doubt about how to proceed, and so, while earning a living as a picture framer, I engaged in a substantial course of Jungian analysis to figure it all out. I used my “abstract” paintings in the therapy as if they were dreams, and interpreted them in ways that had meaning for my life and psychological development. This experience led me to graduate school in clinical psychology. Since 1976 I have practiced psychotherapy, working especially with artists.