I live in the most beautiful place on earth, the North Coast of California, and I am inspired by the nature around me. Time disappears when I am in the zone of an art project, looking, seeing, drawing, painting. I want to share it all. Some of my art experience is listed below.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows
June-August 2008 California Highways - 101 in Silver and Gold, Consider the Alternatives.
May-June 2007 Flowers from my Garden, Consider the Alternatives.
Group Shows
October 2008 Redwood Art Association. Best of Show for Silver Rain - Eel River. Juror Philip E. Linares, Chief Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California.
December 2007 Humboldt Arts Council. Honorable Mention for Silver Day - Bayside. Juror Kristen Evangelista, Asst. Curator, San Jose Museum of Art.
November 2007 Redwood Art Assocition. Honorable Mention for Golden Afternoon - Humboldt Bay. Juror Diana Daniels, Asst. Curator, Sacramento Crocker Art Museum.
BODIES OF WORK
2007-2009 California Highways - The 101 Series Panoramic landscapes in oil.
2004-2006 The Perfect Rose Series, botanical watercolors of rosebuds
1998-2003 My Grandmother's Garden, botanical watercolors of cottage garden flowers.
EDUCATION
Humboldt State University, California, B.A. Art, Spring 2010
University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Semester Abroad in Italy, Spring 2009
Otis College of Art, Los Angeles CA. Certificate in Surface Design, Fall 2003
Huntington Gardens, San Marino CA, and Market Overton England, Workshops in Botanical Painting with Anne Marie Evans. 1999, 2000.
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Sociology, Spring 1987.