I have been making baskets and teaching basket classes for 40 years. My first basket was an 8” melon basket, taught to me by a friend who had taken a class at the Shilo Inn in Seaside, Oregon. I was hooked! There’s so much satisfaction from creating a basket, whether for function or as an art piece.

I love experimenting with different dyes to create the colors I use in my baskets, such as berries, black ash, coffee, and rit dye. Materials that I use to make baskets include roots, rattan, driftwood, cedar, grapevines, and seagrass. My basket styles include Appalachian, Shaker, Nantucket, and freeform baskets. When I’m not teaching basket classes, dyeing reed, or cutting kits, I’m also a piano instructor, photographer, and graphic designer.