Nature has always been my passion. Living in the Pacific NW stirs my need for creative expression as I watch salmon returning, swans wintering in our fields, otters wandering across the yards or the clouds playing across our mountains. I am driven to paint what I see and feel! I strive to honor the magnificence of our environment in my work. Watercolor provides me with a medium that allows me to express not only the softness of a scene, but also the outrageous colors I experience around me.
I am also passionate that art needs to be accessible to all people. Not everyone has empty walls or large spaces to hold original pieces of art. I have created smaller reproductions of my work in the form of functional art and tiles, to provide art for even the smallest spaces. Those items are presented here on my website.
It is my hope as you view my paintings on my web-page, you will enjoy the journey, experience the wonder and joy I feel about the subjects I paint and be moved, as I was moved.
My family is full of artist, my father being one of them. I grew up watching him paint with oils and acrylics. He was always asking me what I was “seeing” with an artist’s eye. In 2000 I leapt into watercolor, the medium no one in my family had tackled and I haven’t looked back! I am self-taught for the most part but have worked with several Northwest artists. They each have had a profound impact on my work. They are Judith McNea, Owen Hall, Deanne Lemley, Ann Breckon, Nancy Taylor Stonington, Eric Wiengardt, Kay Barnes and Birgit O’Connor.