After a rewarding career teaching children with learning disabilities, I returned to art in 2007 and discovered a whole new love: watercolors.
In the years since, I've developed a true passion for transparent watercolors and the wide variety of techniques they offer. I can get lost in a painting — the process itself becomes a meditation of water and color and the energy they create on the paper. I love creating luminous, nature-inspired images, including macro views of flowers, grasses and trees, and birds. I amplify color and push forward technique by experimenting with painting on rice paper with wax as a resist, granulating pigments, and other strategies aimed at exploring texture.
I'm a current member of the Southwest Florida Watercolor Society, Member of Coco Art Gallery in Naples, and a past member of the Michigan Watercolor Society, Ann Arbor Women Artists, and the Chelsea, MI Artists Guild.
Before relocating to Florida, my work was selected for inclusion in both the 2012 and 2013 Michigan Watercolor Society annual exhibitions. Two of my pieces are on permanent display at the Chelsea Community Hospital in Michigan.
More recently, my work has received awards for my watercolor batik paintings at the Art Council of Southwest Florida shows in 2025 and 2026.
My work is now included in private collections in 28 states.
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