For many years, cooking and dancing were my means of creative expressions. At a very young age I would lose countless hours painting, using those paint by numbers kits most of the time and I loved it. Family circumstances changed and the painting stopped. I begged my mother to teach me how to cook at the ripe old age of 11. Luckily for many, including myself, she acquiesced and taught me the basics. Although a math major in college, I loved taking classes studying art in various cultures. Western Civilizations was my favorite class. After graduating college, I moved to California. Sometime in my mid 20s, I enrolled in a figure drawing class and found I was quite adept at capturing the essence of the person being drawn. Once again the art stopped. My knowledge of cooking grew and my natural talent for cooking was fed by experimentation and exploration. My dining room table was my palette for many years where I created a visual painting using the table setting and the food to nourish the person and their soul through sight, smells and tastes. I am also a life-long photographer.

Things changed again and life brought me back to painting.  I learned that I have a natural sense of color, I love mixing my own colors too. I paint in oils. I paint from photos I’ve taken and sometimes I free form, sometimes creating representational abstract. I love large big flowers and many say my paintings remind them of Georgia O’Keefe unplugged.

I have studied with Marcia Cummings, a sculptor and painter, with Glen Orbik, a well-known American illustrator, at the California Art Institute, with Bob Moskowitz, Head of the Art Department at Ventura College and an accomplished artist and with Jill Sattler at Santa Barbara City College, a well known abstract painter.  I have been commissioned to do oil paintings of dogs and an abstract. I also completed a triptych of digital flower paintings using healing frequencies while creating them. I am doing more abstracts now, studying with Jill Sattler, growing, learning and expanding.

My painting is changing and growing. Studying abstracts has really opened me up more. Many of my paintings have an unplanned space theme. They are filled with feelings and are full of light, love and joy.  Many are filled with healing frequencies as well.

In the last few years, I’ve begun writing and have a blog. It has become another creative outlet for me as well.

I would love to heal the world with my paintings and my photos. My dream is that this comes through in my work.  Enjoy!  Life is to be savored either through taste, feel, smell, dance,visual or sound! Take your pick. I love them all!  How about you?

Exhibits:

Ventura Art Walk August 2003
Ventura Art Walk November 2003
Ventura Art Walk April 2004
Ventura Art Walk August 2004
Ventura Art Walk November 20042004
Ventura County Fair
Ventura Art Walk April 2005
Ventura Art Walk August 2005
Ventura Art Walk November 2005
Ventura Art Walk April 2006
Ventura Art Walk August 2007
Ventura Art Walk Solo November 2007
Digital Diversity Show Juried Show October 2007
Buenaventura Art Gallery Juried Show November 2008
Ventura Art Walk April 2008
Buenaventura Art Gallery Juried Show April 2008
Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show January 2009
Artists Union Gallery Juried Show March 2009
CMH Exhibit March 2009
CMH Exhibit June 2009
CMH Exhibit September 2009
Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show July 2009
CMH Exhibit December 2009
Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show January 2010
Buenaventura Gallery Juried Show February 2010
CMH Exhibit March 2010
CMH Exhibit June 2010
Ventura Arts Council Juried Show May 2012
Ventura Comm. College Juried Annual Student Awards Show 2012  Award of Merit in Painting
Ventura County Fair 2012 - Honorable Mention from the Fair Board
Gallery 28 Exhibit December 2012
WAV Size Matters Show Feb 2013
Gallery 28 Collaboration Show Feb 2013
Gallery 28 Paintings of California Show Mar 2013
VCAC  Juried Show March 2013
Gallery 28 Collaboration Show April 2013
VCAC Juried Show “Reflections” April 2013
Ventura Community College Juried Annual Student Awards Show 2013
Gallery 28 Collaboration Show June 2013
See|Exhibition Space , Long Island City, NY   July-September Show 2013
VCAC Juried Show “Collaborations” August-October 2013, Honorable Mention
Gallery 28 Final Show August-October 2013
VCAC Juried Shows:  “Anything Goes” and “Digital Works”  May 2014
VCAC Juried Show:  “Patterns”  July-August 2014, Honorable Mention
See|Exhibition Space, New York Times Square, July 24, 2014
Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara:  “Time” August 2014
VCAC Juried Show: Bigger Is Better Sept 2014
Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara:  “Returns”  September 2014
Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara:  “Vertical”  November 2014