ARTIST PROFILE

I started professional life as a copywriter. After getting my BA in Philosophy and French Literature from Bryn Mawr, I joined a medical ad agency in Manhattan as a copy trainee and stayed there for five fascinating, infuriating years. (Yes, it was a little like "MadMen," a decade later.) The art department interested me so much more than the copy department that I returned to art school. At the National Academy of Design I got classic grounding in Life Drawing (with Joseph Hirsch, NA) and Printmaking (with Hans Jelinek, NA). After that, I was lucky enough to free-lance for the NY Times and many other magazines through the "glory years" of editorial illustration in Manhattan (1980's). But I took a "mommy break" from 1988 to 1998 to start our family. While the kids were still little, I discovered Artisan water-soluble oils, which allowed me to print without poisoning our family with petroleum-based fumes. However, I didn't really return to commercial illustration until 2004, when I joined Serbin Communications as a client, Since that time, I've tried to focus on books, posters and prints-for-sale.

CLIENT LIST

Tyndale Publishers, Inc. Mondo Publishing, Inc. Virginia Shakespeare Festival NewSouth Books, Inc.