My Professional Background

There were several times in my career when I had to pinch myself, amazed that I was actually being paid for what I was doing — even if I occasionally had no idea until later just how famous the person I was art directing actually was.

My career in publishing began more from necessity than by design. When my parents withdrew their financial support while I was in art school, I had to go to work. One job led to another, first in newspapers and then magazines, and I gradually moved from production and design into art direction and publishing. There was no carefully mapped-out career path. I learned as I went, teaching myself whatever the next job required and, more than once, accepting a position I wasn’t entirely sure I knew how to do yet. I figured it out.

In those days, particularly for a woman, one of the few ways to get a meaningful raise was to change employers. So I kept moving, learning, faking it when necessary, and gradually becoming the professional I had initially pretended I already knew how to be. Along the way, I designed scores of publications, conceived and art directed stories and photo shoots, collaborated with writers, photographers, illustrators, editors, executives, public figures and celebrities.

That led to some memorable moments: having lunch with Arthur Ashe, a date with Jean-Claude Van Damme, designing Mel Brooks’s Christmas card, inadvertently poking holes in Julio Iglesias’s porch floor with the exposed metal tip of a worn-out high heel. But those encounters were incidental to the work itself: creating magazines, shaping visual identities, solving problems on deadline, and somehow making all the pieces come together.

Eventually I left staff positions and started my own design business, which I ran for more than thirty years. After the decline of print I taught myself coding and dove into web design, and published my own online travel magazine for a decade. Now that I am retired, I am forging ahead with painting my thoughts, experiences and enchantments. What began as a way to support myself after art school became a long career in which I was constantly learning, inventing, adapting. In many ways, I taught myself everything.

Throughout this whole long arc of my life as an artist, the act of imagining something and bringing it into the world keeps given me the same sense of delight and wonder.

Exhibits & Awards

2026-Vintage Visionary (Artists over 50yrs) Las Laguna Art Gallery, 550 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach CA, May 7 – 30, 2026. Invited.

Renewal – Strengh Through Art, Corrick’s Stationery & Gifts and The Gallery at Corrick’s 637 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, California, February – March 2026. Invited.

Our Power, Our Planet, KBM Art Gallery, Hollywood. California. Selected for the 3 artworks/artists chosen for Pinned Promotion on Instagram and placed on website front page.

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Open Studios 2025 Studio Artist

Woof, Meow, Chirp, Slither, Cugini Wine Bar & Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

39th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition, Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL

AQUA, Cugini Wine Bar & Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

64th Annual Best of the Best Exhibition, Backus Museum, Fort Pierce, FL September – November 2025, Judge’s Award of Merit

Member’s Exhibition, Artists of Palm Beach County, Lake Park, FL September – November, Judge’s Recognition

Earth’s Reflection, The Art Effect at the Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 14 – Aug. 9, 2024

Beyond Blossoms: The Power of Pollinators, Cultural Council for Palm Beach County – April 19-June 22 (4 pieces SOLD)

1st Annual Preserve Art Exhibit, West Palm Beach – April 13, 2024 (produced the show)

33rd Annual All Florida Juried Art Show, Stuart, Florida – January 9 – February 29, 2024

Florida! See it Like a Native! Juried Exhibit and Gallery Opening The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach FL – August 12, 2023

44th Annual Members’ Show Lighthouse Art Center Gallery Tequesta, Florida

31st Annual All Florida National Juried Arts Show Stuart, Florida

d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA main gallery

WITVA “For the Love of Art” – JCC, Boca Raton, Florida

International Fine Arts College Faculty Show, Miami 1987

Boston City Hall, Boston 1980, 1983

Kaji Aso Gallery, Boston 1985

Master Eagle Gallery, New York City 1985

Greenwich Art Society: 1973 Honorable Mention