My work defies a single classification. I claim to be an intuitive, self-referenced artist/maker. Throughout my life, I’ve been fascinated by the disparate patterns created by textile artists and now find myself integrating these into painterly abstractions. I use whatever media that insist upon entering my creations, but textiles dominate each motif -- from the scenic, to portraiture to pure abstraction. I am often surprised by the combinations in a single work: watercolors, pastels, house paint, acrylics, oil, wax, ink, coffee, sand, paper. I never know in advance how the narrative will manifest and try hard not to control the theme that will finally emerge. The current work is influenced by the discourses and music heard on Public Radio that kept me company during the COV-19 pandemic. Trained as a sociologist, I can’t exactly recall when my deep passion with textiles hijacked my interest in almost anything else, including a nascent academic career. Here, 30 years on, my work is held in many private collections as well as Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Art Collection. I have exhibited at the Louisa Gould Gallery, the Feldman Family Gallery and the Robertson Gallery in New York City. My current work represents the latest manifestation of my mysterious, lifelong affair with textiles.