My paintings are a celebration of lively brushstrokes, reflected light, and the best color I can come up with. I think of them as: "PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION." I use big hog hair brushes loaded with paint and use a lot of it. My style of painting is to go directly to the source and paint from nature.

You  might find me anywhere around the Olympic Penninsula standing at my easil painting near an old barn, the beach, or the Lavender fields. Artists/teachers who have influenced me are: Sergei Bongart, Sebastian Capella, and Barbara T. Roy. My peers have blessed me with over 25 awards and two of them were for "Plein Aire", (painting directly from nature) and  a Special Award for "Best Use of Color". One of my paintings was flown to Voorburg, Holland as part of a cultural exchange. I participated in the first "Legacy Show" at the Ebel Club, Pasadena, Ca.  (for former students of Sergei Bongart).

Current Membership The California Art Club, Pasadena, Ca., painting patron, (the oldest continuous art club in the U.S.) Oil Painters of America, Associate Member, The  National Museum for Women in the Arts,  Wa. D. C.,  (founding member) Plein Air Painters, Washington State

Past Memberships The San Diego Watercolor Society, The National League Of American Pen Women, Escondido Branch,  The Brandon Gallery, Fallbrook, Ca., The Riverside Art Museum and others.