I am a hybrid student/professor/artist/art historian. With a PhD in medieval art from Brown University, I taught art history for 34 years at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. During those years, I was a consultant to the Art Institute of Chicago Education Department and a board member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design — all while taking studio art classes, primarily fibers and painting. After retirement I moved to Santa Barbara and focused on being an artist, but one who could never leave art history behind.

My work is about the contemporary world viewed through the lens of the sublime. Edmund Burke in the 18th century connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger — sensations all too evident today. On the one hand I am drawn to the horrifying yet mesmerizing daily news photographs of destruction — war, terrorism, environmental degradation, natural disaster — that emphasize the fragility of our world. On the other hand, the awe-inspiring yet evanescent beauty of nature seems larger than the pettiness of humanity's machinations. My art is a comment on both aspects of the sublime.