An artist who has made a career of searching out the sumptuous materials of medieval and early renaissance painters, of learning to use these materials through the many original treatises left by these artists themselves and producing original artworks with them.

As a frequent guest lecturer at major art museums and a workshop leader she has made it a personal mission to share this knowledge, and these beautiful materials, with artists, historians, and art lovers alike, in addition to consulting on research projects with museum conservation research departments.

In addition to lecturing and producing museum didactics for exhibition, she has been featured in related technical videos, a National Geographic’s Television production “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa” and a TEDx program “Putting the “art” back into “ART””.