Expertise
A passion for aesthetics and years of building upon my culinary skills
lead naturally to a career in food styling.

I bring fourteen years in the food industry to my work. My career has evolved from specialty foods & cheese buyer, cook, baker, cooking teacher and food-column writer to the ownership of a gourmet catering business that focused on delicious food and detailed artistic presentation.

A Bachelor of Arts degree in Design gives me a trained eye for composition and color as well as exquisite attention to detail. An emphasis in Advertising and Psychology gives me a great knowledge base for creative problem solving and the "how-to sell” mind-set needed for the advertising business.

There are very few programs available in the U.S. to train as a stylist. I was fortunate to attend The Art of Styling Food, a 60-credit curriculum taught by international stylist Donna Lafferty. It consisted of one-on-one instruction and a final exam photo-shoot.

I attended the 2003 Food on Film, a styling and photography seminar formerly held every two years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It consisted of four full days of instructional classes taught by established professionals in the industry.

My Menu media tour
Filterfresh coffee products
Taste of Home Entertaining magazine
MATC Photography Department / Jim Wildeman / Guest Speaker, four occasions
Swiss Colony / Swiss Colony Occasions magazine
Kerry Ingredients
Kwik Trip
Maid Rite television commercial
Madison Wine Club / Madison Food & Wine Show booth design and exhibition
Madison Symphony Orchestra Chocolate Gala
Chiquita
Food Trends @ Hormel Test Kitchens / U.S. Dairy Export Council / U.S. Beef Export Federation video Austin, MN
Madison Magazine editorials
N.Y. 2003 Licensing Expo Trade Show / Mary Kay International
Southern Wisconsin Radio Therapy television commercial
Fifes Corner Bistro print advertising

Photographers / Studios
Michael Mowbray DeForest, WI
CW Television "Buzzed in to Madison"
Chris Elinchev Small Pond Productions Blue Mounds, WI
Rob Hagen Senior Photographer, Readers Digest Association Milwaukee, WI
Dan Roberts, Lori Foy, Jim Wieland Readers Digest Association Milwaukee, WI
Grace Natoli Sheldon Milwaukee, WI
Mark Derse Milwaukee, WI
Jamie Forrest Core Images Madison, WI
Pro Video Madison, WI
Radlund Photography Madison, WI
Mark Salisburry and Steve Milanowski Salisbury Studio Madison, WI
Greg Sutter Sutter Photographers Middleton, WI
Joe DeMaio Madison, WI
Jessie Espie Madison, WI