From my first experiments with strained squash and peas in my high chair I have loved to paint. Painting is travel for me -- a journey into my mind. When I paint for myself I am concerned with migration the constant moving of life from place to place. I am interested in how animals live in the few places left on earth where they can wander in some freedom -- the oceans, the northern forests, the African plain. Some of these ideas are in things I make for the Clever Hand, i.e., elephants and zebras walking around a mirror frame or a school of fish endlessly circling one another in a mobile.

My work at the Clever Hand Gallery can be divided into two types; custom house ornaments and house portraits I make to order, and mirrors and mobiles which express my own artistic feelings. I use small sable brushes to obtain fine details and linen canvas of the smoothest grain. The wood I use is birch plywood for the hanging houses, pine for the standing houses and basswood for the mobiles. The paint is Liquetex acrylic which is fade resistant, durable and versatile, as it can be used with both watercolor and oil techniques, and is permanent.