My newest series "Handy Women" looks at the roles women are expected to fill in modern life. These quilts depict, with tongue in cheek,  the more practical side of Womanhood, where my earlier quilts quilts have explored the spiritual side of Woman.

My series "Spirit Horses" explores my life long love of the horse. Influenced by my childhood in Oklahoma and by an inspiring trip to the Uffington White Horse, a thousand-year-old chalk carving of an abstract horse in the countryside of England, these horses are imaginary spirits of strength and freedom. The women in my block printed quilt series "Womenagerie" show wild women with the same qualities of strength and freedom. The "Cover Girls" series of computer printed silk women in repeat explore our society’s obsession with female beauty.

My earlier body of my work is an exploration of the themes of revelation and emergence. My "Quilted Goddesses," "Currents" and "Geodes and Crystal Caves" all seek to expose the tension between surface and layer, reveal the hidden, and uncover the submerged.

When the female form emerges in my work, she is strong, and vibrant, a force of nature, someone to be reckoned with. She is often a creature of myth, like Medea, the Celtic summer queen or a mermaid. Sometimes she appears as the Mother, the Maid or the Crone. In all her manifestations, my "Quilted Goddesses" are my attempt to tap into that powerful spirit hidden inside.

My "Geodes and Crystal Caves" explore the disparity of the inner and outer experience. Rough on the outside yet beautiful on the inside, geodes are like small encapsulated worlds. These quilts exhort us to look below the surface for buried truth.

I am drawn to explore water images that seem to flow naturally from the dyeing and painting techniques I am using on fabric. This has led to the series "Currents" which examines water currents as a metaphor for the constant pull between surface and layer. The surface of the waters churn during rough weather or lie glittering above obscuring the depths below. Many of these quilts examine the feeling of submersion and surfacing. Another series on the theme of electrical currents was inspired by the spectacular thunderstorms that rock our area routinely lighting the darkness of the water below. These electrical impulses, like those that shape our brain waves, are creative impulses and flashes of clarity and revelation.