My career as a children’s book illustrator spans over 35 years. My favorite subject has always been fairy tales. Fascinated since childhood, I would spend hours drawing images and characters from my favorite stories. I always had several prized storybooks on rotation. Here I escaped into a world of magic and imagination, as characters worked out all sorts of predicaments by making deals with witches, fairies and little goblins, more often than not outsmarting them and conquering all sorts of hardships. Conjuring up images to match the words has always been the best part of what I do. To me there was something magical about the tradition of folklore and the stories and life lessons they told.

I was lucky enough to raise four children who grew up with the same curiosity I had, but now that they are grown and moved out of the house I have the time to return to the curious world of make believe.

I recently discovered the exciting world of surface and pattern design and am excited to see how I can turn my illustrations into fairy tale art for children’s spaces, whether it becomes wallpaper, stationery, fabric design, as well as the prints and originals that I will still be working on.