Making art has always been my passion.  After graduation from San Diego State University, I was accepted into the Master of Arts program at SDSU.  Teaching drawing to college freshman as a TA and giving private drawing lessons helped me with tuition.  During the following years, I taught Art in several different venues: public schools in California and Michigan, a private school in Kenya, East Africa and I gave private lessons in my home art studio.

After returning to the USA from Africa, I worked part time as an art teacher in public schools while raising two children.  Since 2001, I have pursued making paintings professionally.  My paintings have been juried into art gallery exhibitions with the Central Florida Watercolor Society, Sobo Fine Art Gallery, Artscapes and Oakland Heritage Center venues in the Orlando, Florida area.  I have oil paintings and watercolors in several private collections locally and nationally, as well as commissioned artwork.

My art mediums of choice are both watercolor and oils.  My subject matters cover contemporary and traditional still-life paintings, landscapes, waterscapes and portraits.  Though I do many watercolors that have layering of washes and colors, I also find satisfaction in doing loose, quick watercolors or oils, both outdoors and in my studio.  I enjoy the immediacy and fluid quality of painting with watercolors.  Painting with oils is equally enjoyable as one can build rich textures and easily alter or add to areas of the visual plane.  Both mediums are challenging, encouraging intellectual and creative growth. 

My husband Joe and I live in the Central Florida area as do my children and grandchildren.