I have been exhibiting my work as a sculptor since the late ”70’s, while living in various parts of Massachusetts. In 2019 my husband, Don Gropman, and I moved to Gloucester from the Boston area. My studio remained in Somerville, MA and it was a great gift to have had over one week at Manship in April, 2022. On a practical level, it gave me a studio close to home where I could blissfully work every day. But more than that, spending that time at Manship connected me to Cape Ann by allowing me to share in the astonishing creative energy that resides in the land, the quarries, and the buildings that are the Manship Residency. Paul Manship was drawn here as so many other artists have been including my husband and myself because of extraordinary light and natural beauty.
I am currently working figuratively in the traditional medium of fired clay, but only two years ago a non-figurative project for a gallery in Berlin was completed in the medium of stiffened cloth. I don’t feel tied to whatever I had been previously doing if the project I’m working on calls for something else.I am interested in formal visual considerations, and the viewer’s emotional connection to the work.
