At the age of four, I recall staring at the wall in my bedroom seeing images appear in the mottled wallpaper, much the way that we see images in the clouds.
My art education, beyond playing with finger paints, began when an art teacher entered my fourth grade class room to introduce our class to pen and ink. The way the line flowed from thick to thin, enchanted me. In the basement of our home I found my father's discarded pen nibs which along with a bottle of ink began my drawings from the imagination.
It was my great fortune while still a teenager, to take classes at RISDI, changing the way I see, prior to moving across the country to San Francisco.
Since then I've lived and painted in Mendocino county and Oakland California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Southeast Asia.
I thank my teachers on the Mendocino coast ~ Gail Bien for understanding color so well, Bill Martin for teaching me elliptical perspective, Bob Ross ( not the TV guy!) , who taught by setting up an encouraging environment for painting, and Roberto Chavez for simply being himself.
Now, I live in the mountains of Northern California, where I garden and explore when I'm not painting.