About The Artist
I paint the figure, landscape, still life and all combined. I paint with oil, watercolor an pastel. I especially enjoy painting and drawing the figure from life using a variety of media. I also sculpt and cast in bronze.
I grew up in Westwood and moved to N. CA when I went to UC Berkeley. My parents owned a restaurant in Hollywood on Vine St. for 35 years. My father put my 4 sisters, brother and me in movies as soon as we could walk. My three older sisters were a singing and dancing trio until they got married and had families. They cut records, entertained the troops and won washing machines on amateur hours. I’ve written a memoir about those years, several short stories and countless poems. I got an MA in art and another in Art Therapy. I worked as an Art Therapist in the Bay Area for many years while I made art. I paint and sketch the figure, face, landscape, still life and all combined. I use w/c, oil, pastel, ink and multimedia. I also sculpt the figure and head and have cast some in bronze. Please check out my website and click on Art in the Barn to see a short film about my exhibit of life-size female figures. Feel free to contact me for announcements of future shows.
Oil Paint, Watercolor, Pastel, Drawing, Prints and Printmaking, Mixed Media, Sculpture
Studio Information
Art Works Downtown
Founder's Gallery
Contact Information
415-279-7096
Exhibitions & Press
Solo: Art in the Barn, Sonoma Co, 2019 & 2018
College of Marin, Kentfield CA, Line & Shadow 2015; Local Landscape 2015
Pt. Reyes Natl. Seashore 2012, 2010, 2007, 1998
Gay Gordon Gallery, San Anselmo CA
California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland
Group: Contemporary Watercolors: Pushing Boundaries, Belvedere/Tiburon Library Art Gallery, Nov 2023 – Jan 2024 Teravarna, Talent Prize, Landscape, Still Life, Figure Exhibits 2021-24 Sheridan Prize for Art, First Place Women Artists, 12- 2022 Pocket Star Gallery, Athens, Greece, The Art of the Poem, 2022 Brentwood Gallery & Falkirk Cultural Center: CA W/C Assn. ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, Contemporary Botanicals, 2022. Art Show International, 2022 & 2023, Five Group Exhibitions: Figure, Landscape, Still life Honorable Mention, Floral Talent Prize De Young Museum, San Francisco, Online Gallery – Alice Neel 2022. Las Laguna Gallery, Human Faces & Figures,Laguna CA 1/ 2022Women Painting Women Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael CA, January 2020 Bay Area Printmaking, Falkirk, 2017 & Group Shows 2001 – 2020
Seven Magic Realists, Falkirk, 1998
Marin Museum Contemporary Art, Group Shows, 2011 – 2019
Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, Group Shows, 2009 -2017
Bolinas Gallery, Art on the Farm 2012, 2009
Figuratively Speaking, Elsewhere Gallery, Fairfax CA 2011 & Group 2008-2013
Exquisite Face, 750 Gallery, Sacramento CA, 2002
F L. Wright Civic Ctr. Gallery, 1997 – 2014
California Collector’s Gallery, Kentfield CA, 2000-2001
American Assoc. Of University Women, U.C. Davis, CA
Please see my resume on my website for more exhibition information.
Sheridan Prize for Art, website & local media, December 2022
Zawanda. 48 Artists, Just Press International 2011
American Artwork, 2024
The Ark, Featured Artist and Artwork, December 2023
Sheridan Prize for Art, First Place, Women Artists, December 2022
Awards, Marin County Fair, Fine Arts Exhibits
Teravarna, Talent Prize multiple shows
New Millennium, Poetry Finalist
Sheridan Prize for Art website and local publications; Pacific SunMarin; Independent Journal; San Francisco Chronicle; Sacramento Bee; Marin Magazine; North Bay Bohemian; Marin Arts; Marinscope Newspapers, The Ark
Education
University of California, Berkeley, BA
California State University, Sacramento, Master of Arts in Fine Art
California State University, Sacramento, Master of Arts in Art Therapy
Post Graduate: University of Hawaii; UC Extension SF; Academy of Arts SF; College of Marin; Classical Realism Atelier of David Hardy, Oakland
