Lives and creates her art in Twilight Tales Cottage.a place where time stands still and it's always the 'Witching Hour'.
I live, breath, dream, research, write, share, discuss, and surround myself with Halloween. My work represents a celebration of All Hallows Eve, fringed with darkness and a splash of vintage 'arcade'; hopefully, resulting in a litany of BLACK and ORANGE.
My Inspirations: Vintage Halloween, old desolate amusement park fun houses and arcades , fortune telling machines, Russians, Gypsies, time travelers, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Ripley's Believe it or Not, The Porch Hag Society, Shirley Jackson, Rod Sterling, 'Twilight Zone', 'Night Gallery', 'Kolchack: The Night Stalker', Victorian Ghost stories, mirrors, clocks, illuminations, lamps, Autumn, candles, night life, Old Burial Grounds, Ed Wood, folk lore, Ginny's Vegetable people, Deborah's darkness, history, New England, people who love Halloween, 'The Mummy', swamps, gators, the 'leg lamp' from 'A Christmas Story', bats, Robert Burns, black cats, orbs, "One Step Beyond', Mr. Poe Poe, candy containers, the monster under the bed, the man in the moon, zombies, red wine, Tim Burton, spiders and the wicked webs they weave, Smashing Pumpkins,' Friday the Thirteenth the Series', Uncle Lewis' vault of cursed antiques, "Creature From The Black Lagoon"', hunting 'chicken fairies' and' land sharks', Lushia Manor, dressing tables, lanterns, bonfires, and last but not least.Edward Gorey and all those wonderful black and white spooky films I use to stay up late and watch as a kid.
Creating and co-producing the second annual 'Halloween Opera'.
Working on furniture for 'Halloween House'.
A Mary Shelley Halloween Opera
A Celebration Of The Arts
September 11 th , 3004
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Halloween and Vine
A Very Original Folk Art Show
October 9 th , 2004
Sonoma, California