My father was a journalist and photographer, and I used his old heavy Rolliflex for years to take photographs of nature and close-up views of flowers. As a child, I also loved taking art classes from my cousin artist, Maribland Bryant, and in college moved into set design and painting for plays and aquatic shows, as well as editing our college yearbook.

Now I search for unusual views of flowers, architectural details, or nature in rambles through city and country. I combine photographs and other materials into interesting collage combinations of colors, metallic hues, fabrics and quotations for “small art.” This can be greeting cards, calendars, bookmarks, magnets, gift tags, inspirational quotations and images – each a “one-of-a-kind’ original piece of art. This is creativity that can be completed in the small windows of opportunity in my over-scheduled life as a leadership educator for medical school faculty in the U.S. and around the world. I hope that you enjoy using Page’s Pages as much as I enjoy creating them!