Building sandcastles with drips and  moats occupied my ideal  summers with the beach only a few blocks away at the New Jersey shore.  With many picnic lunches and BBQ’s, paper plates became one of my first drawing surfaces no doubt done with Crayola crayons—I so loved a new box of 100’s.  I drew for many years but really recall our family Sunday visits to Valley Forge with its gentle countryside dotted with stone houses and walls, thus subsequently Andrew Wyeth became my first real inspiration and teacher as I copied his work to learn how to paint and to this day I am very comfortable and at home when I do landscapes. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Environmental Design from Arizona State University. I worked as an interior designer and after went back to studying art at the College of Marin.  Once again hooked on fine art, I got out of interior design with all its endless minute details for a full time art career. My husband and I travelled for seven years around the world including four years living in Johannesburg, South Africa. With the endless travel bug we still continue to travel and photograph our journeys to this today.