My story

I grew up in a world rich in imagination and play. We played outdoors climbing apple trees, playing made up games, ice skating, just busily exploring, discovering, and day dreaming. At about age six I asked my Mom if she could teach me how to garden and she said Yes! She let me tend a big patch of zinnias and four o'clocks from seeds to bloom beginning a life time love of plants and gardening! Much of my work is informed by that love of tending, pruning and blooming. I collect objects that end up in my paintings, like an old teapot, a funky plate or bowl. I have sketchbooks full of shapely vessels, favorite flowers and leaves, colorful butterflies and birds, vistas, sunsets, cloud formations, and more. This sense of wonder fuels my creativity and inspires me to create varied works in still life, landscape and abstracts with enhanced realism coaxed onto canvas with color, dots, and texture.