Merridee has always used imagination as her communication medium with the world. As a child in the midwest, she enjoyed playing with the dimensional aspects of defining space. While in elementary school, she developed an interest in drawing floor plans for fun—be it hotels, single-family homes, or interiors of submarines! Merridee was the only girl in high school to take mechanical and architectural drawing.

She pursued her affinity for architecture in college and her interests evolved to include other design avenues as well. A job in Boston led her to begin graphic design inside architectural projects. In the early 1970s, she was a founding member of the first all women’s carpentry collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later as the art director for a national magazine she met her husband, a fellow artist, and soon returned to the midwest to create art and a family.

While on her artistic journey, she became a mother to three daughters, a most creative endeavor! Since then, Merridee has expanded her inspirational focus and now grows natural materials to incorporate into her work.