BIOGRAPHY

I grew up as an army brat, traveling all over the south and southwest, going to a new school every year until high school.  I was always able to entertain myself by reading and drawing. I learned to embrace change and enjoy meeting new people. I studied languages and history and art and finally decided to teach high school and incorporate all of these interests. After 33 years of teaching German, French, and European History I retired and decided to take up my other interests of art and art history in a more serious way. I did not start out to get advanced degrees, but I was having a good time being a student and traveling and improving my skills and knowledge.

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As a life-long educator I want to inform and enlighten the viewer, but in a playful way. However serious the subjects- which might range from intolerance, climate change, environmental degradation, ignorance, and bigotry-the work is colorful, complex, puzzling and enticing.  The artwork reflects the struggles, pain, challenges, joy and adventures of life, and show that it is colorful, wonderful, confusing and full of promise and surprises everywhere we look.