Cattleya Orchid - 2012 - oil and 23 K gold leaf - 12 W X 16 H Jack-in-the-Pulpit - 2011 - Oil and 23K Gold Leaf - 16"HX20"W Azeleas - 2009 - Oil and Gold Leaf on Board - 6"X6" Peony - 2009 - Oil and Gold Leaf on Board - 6"X6" Artichoke - 2007 - Oil and Gold Leaf - 8X10 Sensitive Fern - 2007 - Oil and Gold Leaf on Board - 9"X12" Iris (detail) - 2007 - Oil on Board - 9 7/8" X 22" Amaryllis - 2007 - Oil - 9X12 Harbingers of Spring - 2010 - Oil on Canvas - 26X24 Red Spotted Admiral Butterflies on Cherry Bough - 2008 - Egg Tempera - 14" X18"

Artist Bio
Selected Exhibitions-Juried Shows


41st Annual Juried Exhibit, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. 2010

Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Art, Bristol, England. Contributor to Kerry Tribe's "Dead Star Light" exhibit. Using the butterfly species Parnassius Mnemosyne (the Butterfly of Memory) this exhibit investigates questions of personal and historical memory, 2010.

New Haven Paint and Clay Club, 109th Annual Juried Exhibition, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, 2010.

Lyme Art Association. "Deck the Walls," 2009, "Associate Artists Exhibition," 2010, "Marine Art," 2010, "Deck the Walls," 2010.

Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists. Juror: Claudia Seymour, President, Salmagundi Club, New York, New York. 2009.

Greenwich Workshop Gallery, Fairfield, CT. Small Works North America. 2008.

Peabody Museum/Environmental Science Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT. "Butterflies of the Eastern United States," 2008, "Birds of Prey of the Eastern United States," 2010, "Songbirds of the Eastern United States,"2011

Somerset County Environmental Education Center, Basking Ridge, NJ. "Birds of Prey of the Eastern United States," 2010, "Songbirds of the Eastern United States," 2011

New York Open Center, New York, NY. "In and Around New York: Works of Art by the Faculty, Alumni and Students of the New York Botanical Garden," 2008.

Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, CT. First Annual Garden Tour Exhibit. 2008.

Highstead Arboretum, Redding, CT. Annual Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Juried Themed Shows. "Ferns of the Eastern United States," 2006; "Butterflies of the Eastern United States," 2007; "Birds of Prey of the Eastern United States," 2009, "Songbirds of the Eastern United States," 2010

Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT. Juried Alumni Exhibit. 2007.

Case Memorial Library, Orange, CT. Art in the Library. Three-person show, July, 2007.

Thomas A. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists.

John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT. Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists. (*) Award Winner.

Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT. Annual Connecticut Artist Juried Exhibition.

Guilford Art Center, Guilford Art Association, Annual Juried Exhibit
(*)Award Winner, 2009

Scranton Library, Madison Art Association, Annual Juried Exhibit

City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT.


Residencies/Publications/Interviews/Public Engagements

Com-En-Art Artist-in-Residence recipient. Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville, NY. 2010

"Scientific Art Display Aims To Educate and Inspire," Yale Environmental News, Winter, 2008, Volume 14, No. 1, pp. 24-25.

Interview guest appearing on BCTV Branford Community TV, "Live with Pete Lombard," 2007.

Visiting Artist. Painted on-site at the 1st Annual Garden Tour at the Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, CT, 2008.


Education

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. Certificate in Botanical Illustration.

Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT.

Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT.

New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

BA, Economics, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA

MBA Finance, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Additional Information
"Drawn to Nature: Natural Science Illustration Artists teach us how to capture the wonders," New Haven Register, September 4, 2001
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/09/04/life/doc4e6438d80e059319483893.txt