I have worked with glass since I was 8 years old when I learned how to bead from other Mi'kmaq teenagers at summer camp. Who knew it would turn into a life-long love of glass? That was also the year I fell in love with stories - check out my storytelling page for more info.

 

Growing up in very rural northern Maine in a mixed family of Irish and Mi'kmaq parents meant I was always different from most other kids with my blended ethnicity. I saw the world with two sets of eyes every day. That two-way-of-seeing rooted itself deeply into my art and as I worked my way through various mediums trying to find what spoke to me the most, I always looked forward to traditional beading and basketry right alongside oil painting or learning about Medieval cloisonné techniques and studying art history. Today, I work with various forms of glass in order to express my two-way-of-seeing although I still enjoy beading, basketry, and porcupine quillwork and sometimes combine mediums for a more wholistic statement of my subject.