I believe in the power of story, and I believe in exploring inner landscapes, playing with the past, and looking at history and narrative with a fresh perspective. I work primarily in oils, incorporating antique gilt frames and antique china into my pieces, and I draw extensively on my academic background in art, history, and literature to create what I hope are timeless, romantic, intellectually thoughtful, and visually layered portraits of novelistic heroines and heroes. And lots. And lots. Of lover's eyes...

My degrees include a Ph.D. in French literature from Yale University, where I studied with Harold Bloom and Peter Brooks, an M.Phil. from Paris IV, an M.A. from Lyon II, an M.A. in comparative literature from S.F.S.U., and graduate studies in the philosophy of language. I’m the author-editor of Living with Shakespeare (Penguin) and Why We Read Jane Austen (Random House). To find out more about the sumptuous art book I've just written, The Eye Art Book, click here.

My paintings have been acquired for private collections, exhibited at Bergdorf Goodman and the Liz Lidgett Gallery, made available as prints through Artfully Walls and Anthropologie, and featured in the forums "Colossal", "My Modern Met", and "Antiques & the Arts Weekly", the magazines Tatler and Where Women Create, and the canonical reference books Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection and Phaidon's The Jewelry Book. View my c.v. here.

I’ve lived in Paris, Lyon, London, New Haven, San Francisco, and West Hollywood, and my art assistant-mini-shih-tzu Agatha and I currently live with my husband, his two dogs, and the little dog we've just inherited from my beloved late mother (which makes it, to be honest, a lot of dogs) in the hills of the Napa Valley, California. Read more about our studio-home in this article in Where Women Create.

 

 

This is Mike Greenough, my husband, who is in charge of not only many essential elements of logistics, frame and board prep involving very loud power tools (thank you!), packaging, and shipping, but also of hanging the highest pictures on our gallery walls and making us laugh when we need it the most. 

 

This is Sophia Flores, whose official title is Project Manager, but who is in actuality our very own Mary Poppins. Not only does she swoop in and bring tidiness and fun here with innate elegance, common sense, and patience, she's the mother of five beautiful children ranging in ages from four to twenty...and (you'll never believe it) she has a new tiny little granddaughter!

 

This is Angelina McConnell, our Marketing Manager, who brings her innate elegance and grace to everything she does, including art directing photo shoots, managing our social accounts, and handling brand collaborations. To our delight, she comes with a tiny little Pomeranian puppy named Phoebe, who bounces about the house like a fluffy cotton ball.

 

And of course this is Agatha, my plucky and ready-for-anything Art Assistant, who has dined at Les Deux Magots, studied the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, been blessed by the Pope, taken gondola rides in Venice, and been - unfairly - kicked out of the Acropolis.