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 my photographs. I also create paper collages and pen and ink drawings.
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.
Watercolor, Mixed Media
Studio Information
This is my home studio
Exhibitions & Press
Falkirk, Spring Exhibition 2026
Marinwood Fall Art Shows, and Spring Art Shows
Previously exhibited at Marin Society of Artists and Marin MOCA
2 Honorable Mentions – Fall and Spring Marinwood Shows
