After more than 20 years teaching physics and math in high school, I retired and returned to my skills in sewing for amusement and to fill the hours that I now had free. To my surprise, this hobby turned into something more as the allure of art quilts drew me in and I discovered the large, vibrant, active, and talented community of art quilters. Soon I was entering shows and getting accepted and now my quilts are traveling in exhibitions around the country. 

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Although born in Germany I left on my third birthday and settled in England with my family for six years. At the age of nine we moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where I finished my education, got married, and had my first child. After a couple of years in Chicago my husband and I settled in Columbus, Ohio, and raised our own family. All during those early years I sewed clothes for everyone in the family. I loved that act of creation. Times changed, I went to work as a teacher, and clothes could be bought for less than the price of fabrics, so my skills languished until my retirement. 

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My quilts have changed over the years, from piecing commercial fabrics, to creating my own fabrics from personal photographs. In retirement my husband and I have hiked extensively in the American Southwest with camera in hand capturing images of rocks, of trees, of the landscape. These images now form the basis of my work. Through the use of the computer I can slice and dice them and create a new world of my own filled with color and design that evoke the beauty of nature.  Each quilt is my homage to nature’s creativity. 

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My quilts have been selected for more that 70 competitive, juried exhibitions nationwide and several have been chosen by SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Association) for international traveling shows that travel around the country for several years. At the San Diego Quilt Visions exhibit my quilt “Into the Abyss” won the “Caught Our Eye” award. 

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I have also been an active leader in the Art Quilt Network, a national organization dedicated to advancing the art.