About The Artist

l live between the sea wall of Vancouver, Canada and the mountains of Bel Air, California. At times, I am close to old growth forests and west coast beaches. Here nature blends patterns and colours in tidemarks, layers of earth and microscopic land forms. The bottom of the ocean floor, texture of tree bark and melting ice emerge onto my canvas expressing a soulful, ethereal sense of design, colour and paint application. Raised in the country, close to nature but not people. I have closely observed earth’s formations. Now, years later, these impressions make their way into my art. Microscopic images come from my own photographs or sketches and expanded 1000% using mediums of oil encaustic, acrylic paint, string and gold leaf. It is my hope that my paintings express both dramatic and serene sensibilities and create a visual meditation on environmental beauty. I was born in Johnstown, PA; received a B.S. Art Educ from Kent St.,Ohio. and went on to enjoy teaching public school art in Wilmington, Delaware and Boston, Mass. Later, I meet and married a Canadian, and moved to Vancouver, BC. There I was on the founding board of a non-profit art school, Art Umbrella; which keep me busy teaching for 15 years. Returned for a year to attend post grad studies in Fine Art at Otis School of Art in Los Angeles. All the while, I painted and exhibited my art. I exhibit in both Los Angeles and Vancouver and work out of my Vancouver, Granville Island studio. My studio is located on Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. I live currently in both Los Angeles and Vancouver and exhibit in both cities.