Nature has always been my passion.  Living in the Pacific NW stirs my need for creative expression as I watch salmon returning, swans wintering in our fields, otters wandering across the yards or the clouds playing across our mountains.  I am driven to paint what I see and feel!  I strive to honor the magnificence of our environment in my work.  Watercolor provides me with a medium that allows me to express not only the softness of a scene, but also the outrageous colors I experience around me.

My family is full of artist, my father being one of them.  I grew up watching him paint with oils and acrylics.  He was always asking me what I was “seeing” with an artist’s eye.  In 2000 I leapt into watercolor, the medium no one in my family had tackled and I haven’t looked back!  I am self-taught for the most part but have worked with several Northwest artists.  They each have had a profound impact on my work.  They are Judith McNea, Owen Hall, Deanne Lemley, Ann Breckon, Nancy Taylor Stonington, Eric Wiengardt, Kay Barnes and Birgit O’Connor.