detail: abstract bowl
American artist. Born january 9 1956/ Philadelphia surrounds. Early education, Swarthmore Pa., school system. before the 1974 merger. Small, Quaker, college influenced curriculum with great flexibility and opportunity for independent and experimental study. Spent the last two years of high school in the art room. Art school in high school. From there, spent a semester at the Boston Museum School, BFA. A little too competitive, so went on to the Houston Museum School, which was perfect. Extremely experimental at the same time a high standard of discipline, aside from the Thursday night hoots on the town. After 30 studio classes in life drawing, sculpture and printmaking, with my fathers untimely passing, I left the program, chose motherhood and embraced the creative world of being a mother, pregnancy, birth, raising children, carving pumpkins, designing Halloween costumes, or sculpting solstice greens foraged from the fields of our home in rural Vermont. Through and between it all, there was always art. Children are natural artists. Painting, drawing, music, was a part of our lives. In 1994 I was introduced to the world of milk paint, having just married a master Windsor chair builder, William Morrison. After painting hundreds of chairs, black over green, black over red, red over blue, I broke free from tradition and began working in wooden bowls, one layer of transparent hue over another, working the image until something or someone said, done. There is something very primal about milk paint, it has an earthy, silky, soul like quality. I found I could incorporate it into any mixed media image. Many of the images on this site are just that. Milk Paint, Pastel, Watercolor. Others are a pure form of the medium. Pastel or Watercolor.
This Year
2021
Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute Indiana. MASKS March 5 June 5. http://artsilliana.com/Gallery
The Store. SW Harbor Maine : Mixed Media 2 and 3 d... ongoing
EDUCATION
MLAS/MS
THOMAS EDISON STATE COLLEGE, Princeton NJ 2017
Concentrations: Depth Psychology/Professional Counseling
Thesis: OASIS OF DISCONTENT: The Sociology of Addiction in Modern American Culture
DIP SNHS, LONDON, 2015 Homeopathy
BFA
VERMONT COLLEGE 2005: HUMANITIES/DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
Theses: THE EMERGENCE OF THE FEMININE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT 2004
THE ALCHEMIST WITHIN 2005
AA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT 2014. HUMANITIES/HUMAN SERVICES AA
STUDIO WORK
MUSEUM SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON TX 1975-1977
Concentrations: Printmaking/Life Drawing
MUSEUM SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON MA 1974 Summer Session
Sculpture/Illustration
HS
Swarthmore Pennsylvannia
Major: 2-D Painting and Illustration 1973
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner/Founder/Formulator Lakon Herbals LLC (www.lakonherbals.com) 1986 – present
Private Practice: Herbal/Holistic Health Care Consultations 1985 – Present
Private Practice: Depth Psychotherapy/Astrology 1980 -present (www.depthastrologer.com).
Freelance Writer 1985-Present
Freelance Illustration Houston Texas 1974-1979
Past
EXHIBITS/Gallery's Etc.
1976 The Bubbling Well Gallery, Cape May New Jersey: Solo Exhibit. Lithographs
1980 Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH Annual Group Exhibit
1989 City Center Art Center, Montpelier Vermont. Group Show
1990 Montpelier VT, Arts Alive. Area Artists Group Exhibit
2007, 2010 Crow Creek Gallery, Cape May CH NJ 08210.
2011 Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor NJ.
2014 Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor NJ.
2016 Studio Place Arts, Barre Vt. “Round and Around” Group Show
2016 Wilton Historical Society, Art and Artisan Annual Exhibit. Wilton Ct.
2017 Wilton Historical Society, Art and Artisan Annual Exhibit, Wilton Ct.
2017 Gallery Z Artists Coop, Lowell Ma., “Looking for America” Group Show
2018 Swarthmore Friends of Arts. Annual Group Show, May
2018 Cerulean Arts' 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Pa. https://www.whatsartblog.com/single-post/2018/07/21/Humans-and-Animals-and-Environs-Oh-My-Cerulean-Arts-6th-Annual-Juried-Exhibition
2018 Fall West Hartford Art League: A Sense of Place.
Group Show.
2019 35th Annual Juried Art/Artisen Show, Wilton Ct. Nov. 7,8,9.
2019 SK Gallery, NY., The Kristallnacht Exhibit. November 16th - December 17th
2020 Gallery Z, Lowell Ma. 'Ice and Snow' Juried Group Exhibit. March/April
2020 Sacramento Fine Arts Center. 'Abstract' Juried Virtual Online Exhibit. June.
2020 Wilton Historical Society Annual Arts/Artisan Show. Nov 5 - Dec 5.
2020/2021 The Store. Gallery. South West Harbor, Me. 2D and 3D bowls / abstract works / prints
2021 Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute Indiana. MASKS March 5 June 5. http://artsilliana.com/Gallery
2021
Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute Indiana. MASKS March 5 June 5. http://artsilliana.com/Gallery
The Store. SW Harbor Maine : Mixed Media 2 and 3 d... ongoing
EDUCATION
MLAS/MS
THOMAS EDISON STATE COLLEGE, Princeton NJ 2017
Concentrations: Depth Psychology/Professional Counseling
Thesis: OASIS OF DISCONTENT: The Sociology of Addiction in Modern American Culture
DIP SNHS, LONDON, 2015 Homeopathy
BFA
VERMONT COLLEGE 2005: HUMANITIES/DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
Theses: THE EMERGENCE OF THE FEMININE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT 2004
THE ALCHEMIST WITHIN 2005
AA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT 2014. HUMANITIES/HUMAN SERVICES AA
STUDIO WORK
MUSEUM SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON TX 1975-1977
Concentrations: Printmaking/Life Drawing
MUSEUM SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON MA 1974 Summer Session
Sculpture/Illustration
HS
Swarthmore Pennsylvannia
Major: 2-D Painting and Illustration 1973
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner/Founder/Formulator Lakon Herbals LLC (www.lakonherbals.com) 1986 – present
Private Practice: Herbal/Holistic Health Care Consultations 1985 – Present
Private Practice: Depth Psychotherapy/Astrology 1980 -present (www.depthastrologer.com).
Freelance Writer 1985-Present
Freelance Illustration Houston Texas 1974-1979
Past
EXHIBITS/Gallery's Etc.
1976 The Bubbling Well Gallery, Cape May New Jersey: Solo Exhibit. Lithographs
1980 Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH Annual Group Exhibit
1989 City Center Art Center, Montpelier Vermont. Group Show
1990 Montpelier VT, Arts Alive. Area Artists Group Exhibit
2007, 2010 Crow Creek Gallery, Cape May CH NJ 08210.
2011 Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor NJ.
2014 Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor NJ.
2016 Studio Place Arts, Barre Vt. “Round and Around” Group Show
2016 Wilton Historical Society, Art and Artisan Annual Exhibit. Wilton Ct.
2017 Wilton Historical Society, Art and Artisan Annual Exhibit, Wilton Ct.
2017 Gallery Z Artists Coop, Lowell Ma., “Looking for America” Group Show
2018 Swarthmore Friends of Arts. Annual Group Show, May
2018 Cerulean Arts' 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Pa. https://www.whatsartblog.com/single-post/2018/07/21/Humans-and-Animals-and-Environs-Oh-My-Cerulean-Arts-6th-Annual-Juried-Exhibition
2018 Fall West Hartford Art League: A Sense of Place.
Group Show.
2019 35th Annual Juried Art/Artisen Show, Wilton Ct. Nov. 7,8,9.
2019 SK Gallery, NY., The Kristallnacht Exhibit. November 16th - December 17th
2020 Gallery Z, Lowell Ma. 'Ice and Snow' Juried Group Exhibit. March/April
2020 Sacramento Fine Arts Center. 'Abstract' Juried Virtual Online Exhibit. June.
2020 Wilton Historical Society Annual Arts/Artisan Show. Nov 5 - Dec 5.
2020/2021 The Store. Gallery. South West Harbor, Me. 2D and 3D bowls / abstract works / prints
2021 Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute Indiana. MASKS March 5 June 5. http://artsilliana.com/Gallery