I am an architect, artist, and teacher.  I regard drawing as a tool for seeing and understanding. All of my drawings are made from life and in the location of the subject, without the aid of cameras, computers, erasers, or memory.  As such, I describe my work as Drawing (in) Place, meaning drawing a place by drawing IN it. 

For an architect, to draw is to learn. The travel sketchbook is a critical component of an architect’s self-education. The drawing itself is not object of the endeavor - and if it is sometimes beautiful, this is not the purpose, which is to look and to see more clearly, and to convey a sense of place.

Often, I draw at the intersection of time and space. My panorama drawings express the rotation of the body. My journey drawings, made while walking or on various modes of transportation, depict movement through space: the sliding frame of a ship passing through a strait; the episodic character of vignettes of landscape captured from the window of a train or bus; the expressive gestures of a rapid “blind” drawing made while looking down on the earth from the sky.

Over the past few decades, I have moved around the country, with my husband and our three now-grown children, from NYC to Virginia, Arizona, Chicago and finally to Providence, always returning to Martha’s Vineyard. During this time, I have practiced architecture, and taught drawing and architecture at many universities, including Brown University, where I currently teach part-time, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University and  Arizona State University. I have also led travel drawing study abroad programs to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and to other ports around the Mediterranean.

I continue to practice and teach and always, everywhere, I draw. I draw when I travel - on foot, on trains, planes and boats; I draw when I am at rest. I draw for myself and, whenever possible, I share my joy in capturing a moment in time and place.