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. 

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).

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 magazine Where Women Create, and the canonical reference book Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection. 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 and his two 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 and shipping, but also of hanging the highest pictures on our gallery walls. 

 

And 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.