"I make baskets using a technique that I developed, a combination of three-dimensional collage and paper mache. The vessels are made over molds. I have used thin and thick papers, varied the shapes and included paper cord, reed, or fiber in the body of the vessels.

I am fascinated by form and structure. I have used subtly varying hues in some of the baskets made by a lengthy and complex dying process. I look for inspiration for these colors and forms in the natural world and then allow technique to mesh with these visual ideas to create something new. I enjoy all aspects of this process: the appreciation of the world around me that suggest ideas and the search for a method of construction that lets my ideas take shape."