“[It’s a] multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of form,” she says about her artistic technique.
Her journey began in her home state of California where she acquired a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley followed by a Master of Arts from Stanford. After immigrating to Canada in 1967 she discovered her gift of creating when taking a clay course at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1968.
“I was doing work for the psychiatry department in research at McMaster [University] and took a clay course and that was the end of my life in academia because I discovered I had a gift.”