About Me
My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
I hold a bachelors degree in Art Education and have had many careers in art. I have been a commercial artist and an art teacher in both private and public schools. I have retired from all the “art” careers and now I am painting in watercolor full time, as much and as often as possible. I reside in Michigan but travel throughout the U.S. and abroad for my inspiration.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
My style goes between two different mind sets. I love to paint impressionistic landscapes, especially in plein air when the weather permits. I also paint in a surrealistic style; pairing well known images in a realistic manner with unusual context, often making my personal social commentary along the way. Whatever I am working on, I prefe
My style goes between two different mind sets. I love to paint impressionistic landscapes, especially in plein air when the weather permits. I also paint in a surrealistic style; pairing well known images in a realistic manner with unusual context, often making my personal social commentary along the way. Whatever I am working on, I prefer to put my own interpretation into each painting; the emotional feeling, the mood and the deviation from local color as needed in that moment.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
Art has always been a part of my life. It defines who I am. My mother used to sit me down at the kitchen table and say, “make me a pretty picture”. It wasn’t, however, until I took my first watercolor class in a small college in California that I fell in love with art and watercolor specifically. Nothing else was as exciting, or inspirat
Art has always been a part of my life. It defines who I am. My mother used to sit me down at the kitchen table and say, “make me a pretty picture”. It wasn’t, however, until I took my first watercolor class in a small college in California that I fell in love with art and watercolor specifically. Nothing else was as exciting, or inspirational as watercolor. I love the luminosity and the unpredictable nature of watercolors; they have a mind of their own. I have learned, over the years, that I cannot control them, I am just learning to to work with them.