About The Artist
My Mexico experience of putting water on paper with a brush in my hand filled my head and heart with the wonder of this unpredictable medium. Shapes and colors had a new intensity and subtlety – I became more aware of my surroundings and the visual surprised offered.
When drawing and painting I enter a different space where I slow to a pace that allows my creative self to find expression and exhilaration. It is a constant source of pleasure to watch a painting go through its metamorphosis and come to life.
My subjects are diverse owing to my varied interests. My realistic paintings are mostly created from photographs.
New experiences have kept me alive and vibrant throughout my life.
I am a Californian who grew up in the Sacramento Valley. Since childhood I have had an active imagination and creative side – starting in nursery school I colored my pig blue rejecting the teacher’s comment that pigs cannot be blue. I then created forts, miniature houses and landscapes in my backyard under our Cedar deodora, In high school I took art classes, then did the same when I arrived in Marin to attend College of Marin. After attending SF State, I served as office administrator in San Francisco for an architect and landscape architect for 45 years where I also designed several landscapes for clients. During that time I created props for several local theaters, and designed my garden, which included my building over 100′ of rock walls and creating flower and vegetable beds.
My journey as a water-colorist began 2006 in San Felipe, Mexico when I took a 2-hour watercolor class followed the next day by a plein-air session.
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