About

Growing up in Hawaii is a wild sensory thing.  Squashed mangoes, long drives from the North Shore, bakey sun, water lapping, palm frond shade slithering over goza and sand.

Japanese esthetics figure in.  Apprenticed to a tea ceremony potter, Baizan Nakamura, in Japan, I learned appreciation for the off kilter, and wabi sabi.  Macho Ameri can ceramics with Peter Voulkos in Berkeley instilled a love for manipulating forms.  Darryl Hughto, in Clement Greenberg's collection, was my rough and tumble painting mentor in New York.  In Hawai'i, I studied with Helen Gilbert and Fred Roster.

I work primarily in encaustic (wax) and gold leaf or in wax and oil on lutrador. 

My paintings are in corporate and private collections in Japan and across the U.S.

On radio, I've hosted jazz, urban, Hawaiian, rock, and other music formats (loved them all!)  At WQXR, the New York Times' classical station in New York City, I  began working in news.  Currently, I do stories about art and culture in Hawai'i for Hawai'i Public Radio.

My work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors' Association as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Hawai'i Chapter, and the Los Angeles Press Club.   

Still stretching out under the shadows and shade.

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