About

For 40 years, I have been a photographer, using my photography to illustrate important environmental issues. The 21st century has brought crises of immense proportions that need to be immediately addressed; global climate change, the availability of food, food production and distribution, the cost of food, pollution of air and water, just to name a few.

Prior to my photography career, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I studied fiber, sculpture and film. For many years I had a weaving studio and then developed my own sculpture technique using chrome steel tubes hand wrapped with French thread. During this time, I did many public art sculptures as well as commissions in Washington state and the State of Illinois as well as major corporations such as Health South and Sony Corporation, etc. The largest commissioned piece was 30' X 20' X 6" and weighed over 500 pounds for the University of Illinois at Urbana.

My work has been recognized internationally in exhibitions from Turkey, Latvia, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Kenya and China. In the United States, my work has been exhibited at the Schneider Gallery in Chicago and was included in Catherine Edelman Gallery's Chicago Project from 2011 to 2014, as well as other galleries nationwide.

In my work, I photograph the beauty in the Natural World that may be on the brink of extinction.

Juror’s Selection, 38th Anniversary Women's International 2013 Christiona Owen, juror

2nd Place Merit Award of Excellence, and Nominations 2013, Black and White Spider 8th Annual Awards