My education has been two-directional — fine arts training and environmental/architectural training. I have developed a passion for graphic research and pictorial thinking with an emphasis on linking two-dimensional and three-dimensional design.

In 1976, while living in Tobago, West Indies, I completed a 200-page independent study project on the coastal zone entitled "The Phenomenon of Place; Water and Land Interface." As an Artist-in- Residence at the Madewood Arts Foundation and St. Philomenia School, Labadieville, Louisiana, I directed a large scale, figurative mural involving some 70 children.

I have been a registered landscape architect in New York State since 1980. I was a winner of the NYC Town Hall Young Artist Award in 1962, and a Special Merit Award winner at the 7th Annual New Orleans International Art Exhibit in 1977. I was a semi finalist in the American Artist Competition of 1978, and a finalist in the NYC Subways Improvement Competition sponsored by the Cooper Union in 1979. I won Best of Show, 2nd Place , at the 1994 Festival at the Lake in Oakland CA .

I have had over 18 years experience in land­ scape architectural offices throughout the USA, involving master planning through detail design. In 1980, I was an associate at Vreeland & Guerriero Landscape Architects, NYC. In 1988, I was project director for RIVERBANK, a 28-acre, urban rooftop state park on the Hudson River.

I was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in New Hampshire in 1981, and a visiting artist at the

American Academy in Rome in 1992. I have taught Landscape Design at Rutgers University for the 1985 school year, as well as Landscape Theory at the New York Botanical Garden. I also presented workshops on "Reading the Landscape" for the Institute for Social Ecology in 1985.

During a 1983 Fulbright Award for the study of landscape in Southeast Asia, I completed 150 paintings, and a manuscript entitled "Landscape Spaces; a Guide to Reading the Landscape." In 1988, I presented a paper on the topic of edges at the International Federation of Landscape Architects' 25th Congress. I live and breathe drawing as a tool for environmental discovery, knowing, projection, and transformation.

I have done solo large scale installations at Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, Crocker Galleria in San Francisco, and for the Pier C show in Hoboken.

My practice from 1991 to present has included mural, object, architectural, and site design. I completed a Landscape Master Plan for the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993. My award-winning wood and stone inlay mezuzahs (small, doorpost prayer-holding sculptures) have been exhibited in galleries, museum shops, and craft fairs.

My murals can be seen at Footwork Dance Studio in San Francisco, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and numerous San Francisco retail businesses.