Education: Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, Ca. and Santa Barbara Art Institute. Teaching: Umpqua Community College, Roseburg; Oregon – Umpqua Valley Art Association, Roseburg, Oregon.

Art is a personal endeavor. it is influenced by life experiences that are as unique to each individual as are the snowflakes of winter.

“I have always been an artist……always. I was inspired as a young girl to be creative by growing up in a creative home. This environment included the visual arts as well as writing and music. There was nothing formal in this education. It was simply a place of appreciation for expression.

I was interested in art….from Auguste Renior and Edgar Degas to Edouard Vuillard and Paul Klee. I loved poetry by Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost. I was melancholy while listening to Pachellbel Canon and swooned over Louis Armstrong.

Today, I paint what I remember from long ago and yesterday ….. passing moments that drew me in with exquisite color or the light beneath a cloud……where the horizon meets the sky.

I am about quietness and order…..laughing and contentment…..faith and sentimentality. I am about remembering and gathering my life’s moments and interpreting them on canvas.”