About The Artist
For
about 20 years I worked in the commercial fishing industry -- seafood
processor, deck hand, vessel owner/operator, and favorite, net-builder. I
am the first woman to graduate from URI's Commercial Fisheries and Marine
Technology program and recently earned a U.S. Coast Guard Master's License.
In the mid-1990s, I changed careers to graphic design and publishing, received
a certificate in Computer Graphics Production from RISD Continuing Education,
and "abandoned" motor vessels for sail. (Not for long, though, as I have
just added an 18 ft lobster boat to my fleet!)
Then, in 2001, while learning to design websites, I purchased a digital
camera (websites have to have photos!). As my interest in photography grew,
I upgraded to a Canon Digital SLR with an assortment of Canon and Sigma
lenses and began taking classes in photography at RISD CE.
My main photographic subjects are the things I love: the ocean, boats
and sailing, kite flying, travel and nature. A series of my photos are part
of the Rhode Island African American Music Heritage Oral History Project:
The Rhythm and Blues Era, in the Rhode Island Historical Society Graphics
Collection. One of my recent projects is photographing the construction of
the wind turbine generator here in Portsmouth.
I have traveled to Nova Scotia,
Bermuda, Iceland, Ecuador and the Galapagos
Islands. I have been to the
Arctic Circle and the Equator and am looking forward to the Antarctic Circle
one of these days.
Oh -- the lobster boat I mentioned above... In addition to using it to haul
lobster pots (I have my recreational license), it is my photo
chase boat!
Member Organizations:
Photographers’ Guild of the Newport Art Museum
Portsmouth Arts Guild
South County Art Association
Save the Bay
Mystic Seaport
Langjokull
Glacier, Iceland
Galapagos Islands
Lobstering with my crew, David
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