I was born in southern California and moved to the east when I was 8 years old. My family spent summers on the east coast on the island of Georgetown, Maine. When I was 17, I moved to Maine to finish high school in an alternative art program at Country Mile School on Georgetown Island. After that I was accepted at The  School of the  Museum Fine Arts in Boston where I studied for a year before deciding to travel the country in my Volkwagon van. After my year long travels, I moved  back to Maine  and settled in Bath. I started a family and went part time to Portland School of Art

(now MECA) as well as participated in an internship at The Childrens Museum of Maine as an exhibits painter and builder/installer. I liked working with children and started in the Bath school system as an Educational Technician and Title One teacher. Eventually I worked in the school library teaching research skills and library skills. When my third child was born I left the school system temporarily to stay home and finish my bachelors degree at the University of Maine  earning a degree in Liberal studies with an emphasis in the fine arts. I taught art at Bath Middle School part-time for 3 years. I also became director of the RSU 1 LOCAL Garden on Lemont St. in Bath after recieving my Master Gardener Volunteer Certificate from USM Cooperative Extension program. I am currently enrolled in the Maine Master Naturalist Program  which will extend my knowledge of the natural world.I am a member of The Centre Street Arts Gallery where I teach classes and show my work. I have also shown work at River Arts in Damariscotta,UU Church in Brunswick and BRAF in Boothbay, Maine.

My beginnings as an artist were not in art school, although I have spent years studying in cities, different schools and workshops and working at home on my own. My exposure as a child to a world of beauty was where becoming an artist began; roaming wild, free to imagine and explore and become and celebrate a magical life in rich and fertile landscapes both east and west. I take that with me where ever I go and try to reflect that in how I live my life and the artwork I create. I am new to painting landscapes  but am finding that they are reflective of my view of the world and its exceptional beauty. I particularly enjoy composition and color and how they work together to make a pleasing visual experience and evoke the extrodinary in the simplest of images. Now showing at Centre St Arts Gallery, Bath, Maine