I was born in 1925 and raised in La Grange, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. A graduate of the University of Illinois, I married an Air Force pilot, have two sons, and am still married after 57 years.

I am an active member of Moxon Chappel, (a printing association), Colophon Club, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Small Press Club of Marin, The Miniature Book Society, Inc. and a watercolor painting and traveling group.

In addition, I have sung in the Sausalito Presbyterian church choir for 35 years and also belong to two chamber music groups—playing flute, and for 16 years have organized, printed letterpress programs and performed in two recitals each year with these two groups as well as additional musical groups.

My printing career began in 1960 during my husband’s assignment to northern Japan; my first book was produced from woodcuts, and by stamping Alphabits cereal for the text. That method of printing was quite unreliable and impossible to control so upon returning to the States I took a night school class on letterpress printing, bought my first press in 1961, and have been printing ever since.

As an artist-printer and proprietor of the Sunflower Press I have studied watercolor, mosaic tile, enamel, oil painting, serigraphy and printing from linoleum blocks. The result is that many types of illustration techniques are employed in the production of my books, and color also plays an important part in the design. A recent miniature uses color copies of my original watercolors. Other illustrations are from linoleum blocks, silk screened images, or zinc cuts made from drawings. After being printed, the images are often hand colored. Each book is bound by hand, with covers fashioned from patterned cloth, suede cloth, velvets, silk brocade, leather and various papers.

In 1972 I began to specialize in the printing of miniature books and have now printed 46 of this variety, with titles such as Land of the Inca, First Emperor of China, Haniwa, One Million Pagodas, Kachinas, Masks, Kubla Khan, and Marco Polo.

To date I have printed over 80 books, participated in many exhibitions, and been the recipient of several prestigious awards. My books can be found in the Permanent Collections of several public institutions as well as in numerous private collections world-wide.

The printing on my newest book Dragonfly has just been completed and it is currently in the binding phase. With several ideas on the drawing board, the next book will be just around the corner!