My work includes personalized documents, decorative broadsides, commemorative albums and customized journals, as well as one-of-a-kind and limited edition artist's books. I employ a variety of styles and media and draw on my interest in medieval art, paper surfacing techniques, modern American poetry, historical book forms, the Arts & Crafts Movement, block prints, collage, and ceramic tiles. When designing a calligraphic piece, I try to explore the power and mood of words through color, style, texture, and size, hoping to find layers of meaning that create rapport with the viewer. My focus on text and ways to reveal meaning through form and design stems from academic training as a writer and nearly two decades in book publishing.

I have taught at four community arts centers as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, been on the "Artists in Education Roster" of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts since 1995, and have participated in Philadelphia's "Art Futures Program," which brings working artists into area schools. My calligraphic "Alpha Dog" was part of the public art progam, Art Unleashed, sponsored by the Main Line Art Center in 2002, and a trilogy of artist's books, "Wings," was selected for a tour (2003-2005) with the national Guild of Bookworkers exhibit, "In Flight." I am current president of the Philadelphia Calligraphers' Society.