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Growing up in a suburb of Philadelphia, my home was always full of lamps, which my father crafted from found objects – wallpaper rollers, vases, and sculpture. Likewise, I find beautiful art objects and fashion them into lamps. I then create one-of-a-kind shades to complement these unique table lamps.

 

As a child and teenager, I enjoyed all sorts of crafting, focusing later on photography and jewelry making.

 

In college, I was a Double-Major in Fine Art and Biology at Sonoma State University in California. The purpose was to cultivate a career as a biological illustrator, therefore my emphasis was on drawing from nature – bones, trees, flowers, insects, and animals. During this period, I discovered the field of Psychology.   Following this new passion, I changed majors to Psychology, eventually pursuing and completing my Doctorate in Psychology at Hahnemann University in 1986.

 

Not until the new millennium did, I find the time and energy to return to art and crafts, having devoted myself for decades to a Psychology career and to my family. More recently, over a ten-year period, I trained in the creation of lamps and lampshades, and in 2023, when I moved to Arden, I launched my business, Arden Lamp Works.