Toad in the hole is a British meal traditionally made with sausages cooked in  Yorkshire Pudding batter. Created as a way to stretch meager meat portions in poor households, it was a regular feature in my late mum’s post WWII British childhood. My 6 siblings and I just thought it was delicious when she’d make it  for us. I chose the name in honor of my mum who, like the dish’s origins, was skilled at making do with what she had. Her ability to make beautiful things -  food, households, clothes, a life - out of the humblest of beginnings inspire me  daily.  

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Although I’ve made art consistently my entire life it wasn’t until the youngest of my 4 kids was in first grade and my oldest was a sophomore in college that I returned to school, as a full time art major. That was in 2002, at Hartwick  College in Oneonta, NY. The art history classes blasted my world wide open but it was the studio art classes, especially print making, that changed me, literally,  for good.  ​I graduated with concentrations in printmaking and drawing in 2006.

 

After leaving the central NYS family farm in 2011 where my husband had been a dairy farmer since the age of 17, we relocated to West Pawlet Vermont where we owned and operated a very tiny dairy, Wayward Goose Farm. 

 

Now, having left dairy farming for good in 2025, we've relocated once more and are beginning again in the mountains of central VT. Here, surrounded by deep forest filled with birdlife of all kinds, I am inspired by the peace and the space, but I continue to be inspired by my Mum making art, making noise -sometimes-, and making do with what I have.

 

Currently my art (mostly reduction block prints) can be seen on the labels of  Red Clover Ale Company’s award winning beer and in private collections near and far.