About The Artist
For the past two or so years, I’ve been painting in oil, exploring different effects I can create with this malleable medium. Currently, I am exploring using shapes and colors to create mostly abstract paintings. Some of the shapes are abstract and others are elements of reality. Color is a predominant concern: I use color to imbue my work with visual excitement and beauty, but also with a sense of humor and playfulness.
For years, I painted in watercolors, mostly botanical subject matter, mostly representational. More enjoyable for me to paint and for the viewer to view are my more whimsical, imaginative paintings. I created some of these in watercolor but have moved to acrylic and oil on canvas, and to drawing. Exploring shapes and forms, I relish the abstract. All my work shows my love of color. My work now: colorful, whimsical, joyful, and imbued with humor and mystery. In addition to practicing my art for 75 years, I’ve also spent many years teaching art to people of all ages, from preschool children to seniors. I have exhibited my artwork in California; Portland, Oregon; New Mexico; Tijuana, Guadalajara, and Mexico City in Mexico. My work is in collections throughout the United States, in Mexico and in Colombia, South America.
Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Pastel, Drawing, Digital Art
Studio Information
Falkirk Cultural Center
The Falkirk Cultural Center is a beautiful Victorian Mansion built in 1888. The stunning interior contains 3 galleries, so you will be able to view the artwork of 3 artists.
Contact Information
5103810237
Exhibitions & Press
2023 Sausalito Center for the Arts, “Spotlight”, Sausalito, CA Acrylic paintings
2022-2023 Sausalito Library, Sausalito, CA Paintings and Drawings
2022-2023 Art Works Downtown, “Cornucopia”, San Rafael, CA Acrylic painting
2023 Bon Air Center #101, Greenbrae, CA Drawing
2022 Bon Air Center #101, Greenbrae, CA Painting
2022 Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA Oil paintings, charcoal, pastel, Prismacolor drawings
2017 The Arc Gallery, “Snap” San Francisco, CA Acrylics
2002 Los Medranos College Gallery, Pittsburg, CA Watercolors and acrylics
1992-1999 ProArts Open Studios, Oakland, CA Watercolors
1995 Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA “A Devotional Legacy: Día de Los Muertos 1972-1995” Watercolors
3COM Corporation Exhibit, Santa Clara, CA Watercolors
Patricia Stewart/Oberon Gallery, Napa, CA “Hispanic Perspective” Watercolors
1990 Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA “A Multi-Cultural Perspective of the African- American Experience” Watercolors
1989 The Bottger Mansion Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico “The Emerging Hispanic Woman” Watercolors
1988-89 The Jessel Gallery, Napa, CA Watercolors
1987 Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Watercolors
Lotería Nacional Building, Mexico City, Mexico “Mexican-American Artists” Watercolors Show traveled to Guadalajara and Tijuana as well.
1985 The Watercolor Gallery, Berkeley, CA “in shades of spring & summer” Watercolors
Galería de La Raza, San Francisco, CA “Women X Women” Watercolors
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA “New Directions: Artistas Chicanas, 6 Women Artists” Slide presentation, watercolors, Prismacolor pencil drawings
1981 The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA “Two Sources: A Survey of Mexican-American and Mexican Women Artists” Watercolors
Galería de La Raza, San Francisco, CA Watercolors and Prismacolor pencil drawings
1980 Nuevo Graphics Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico Prismacolor pencil drawings
1976 The Glenn Gallery, El Cerrito, CA Watercolors
Education
University of California at San Diego for two years, then transferred to:
University of California at Berkeley where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s degree in art.
Earned a teacher credential through Project Pipeline to teach elementary school.
