The gestation of any given work begins with a walk or series of walks through the Massachusetts countryside where she lives and works. Diaristically she builds paintings from incidents and impressions gathered on her walks creating memory maps of a particular day or place. The paintings develop a distinct narrative flow as the viewer follows her track, taking part in what she has found of interest such as a flushed bird, a stand of trees, a bog, or footprints along a lake. In this way her paintings, with their sensitive approach to nature, share a strong kinship with other Massachusetts natives, Henry David Thoreau and the transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.