I attended the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle, WA, USA, which unzipped the outer shell of my family’s traditions and expectations. I painted in the Northwest for 14 years, then moved to the Southeast and painted another 12 years. Then, while visiting the Sonoran Desert, I heard the desert call me. I’ve been painting in the Southwest now for almost 30 years. Northwest by Southeast by Southwest; three sensibilities, three different lights, three different environments; all synthesized into what I create today. The Sonoran Desert has been a powerful muse for me, influencing my art through osmosis, flowing through me, offering its essence which becomes my vision, and helping me celebrate color in my work. For me the adventure of art is discovering a new and different eye to an everyday idea, to re-create from nature not just copying or imitating what is seen, making visible what is not yet seen, discovering a vision waiting below the surface where the paint talks and becomes a new sensibility.

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