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I hope you’ll enjoy viewing my paintings as much as I love painting them.  The photo is of me doing a couple of my favorite things … being outdoors and painting!

A little bit about me:

I received my B.A. in art history at U.C. Davis and U.C. Berkeley. After getting my teaching credential, I received my M.A. in art and art history from California State University, Sacramento.

In 1986, I moved with my husband and daughter from the Bay Area to Trinity County, California, where we built a home on a beautiful piece of land and earned a living as a freelance book production service. From 1990 to 2006 I taught art and art appreciation at all grade levels in Trinity County schools.

In the late 1990s, I realized I needed to make a commitment to my creative self and began teaching myself how to paint watercolor. Watercolor has a quality of lightness and breath that I am instinctively drawn to. When married to landscape, it speaks to me in the language of the spirit. More recently, I have explored the boldness of acrylics and the luminescence of oil.            

From 2004 to 2008 I was an art instructor for Shasta College, Weaverville Extension. Currently, I teach watercolor workshops in Trinity and Shasta Counties. Sharing the art journey with others, both in creating and painting together, is soul satisfying. As, of course, it would be … since art helps us recreate our joyful selves!