"Painting so much more than just a likeness, by seeing with my heart, I capture your memories, littles and loves. Let me bring joyful tears to your eyes."

I’ve always been drawn to art and artists. Watercolor has always intrigued me in because of the softness and translucent nature. Although it is such an unforgiving medium, I throughly enjoy it and each day brings a new challenge.

Naples, Florida based artist primarily self-taught, I create mixed media 2D and 3D art. My best selling art pieces are functional pieces such as Lazy Susan's, tables, wine racks and tactile beach resin wall art.

The majority of my acrylic paintings are inspired by Florida's tropical flowers, brilliant sunsets, and scenic coastlines.

I’ve always loved creating art. As a child I was always drawing on anything at hand. Travel inspires me more than anything else. After retirement, my late husband and I spent nine years living in an RV, traveling all over the U.S. and Mexico. Now Florida’s beaches and tropical plants and birds are frequent subjects in my paintings.

Glass is a magical medium with amazing properties, colors and uses. My work focuses on one-of-a kind organic decorative art that celebrates coastal living and the beautiful nature that surrounds us.

My intension is to create bold, colorful interpretations of the Florida landscape, amazing flowrs, and figures.

I started painting as a hobby after retiring from teaching in the public schools, but it has blossomed into something that I am very passionate about. My preferred medium is working with oils.
While developing my skills as an artist, I am open to painting many different subjects. I enjoy perusing antique and consignment shops to find a variety of objects to render in a still life set up.
I love to travel and have been greatly influenced by the art of the places I have visited from the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa. I am also influenced by many of the impressionist painters, with lots of loose brushstrokes. I now have a home in Estero, Florida and enjoy painting the beautiful wildlife and flora here.
My hope is that the viewer will have a sense of the passion that I put into my painting, and walk away with seeing the beauty of the subject in a unique way.

My passion for creating and visualizing art pieces started when I was very young living in Cuba. In March 2020, I moved back to Florida from Houston, Texas where I showed my work in galleries and juried shows around the Houston area. Before moving to Houston, I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Technology at the University of Central Florida. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to work for Disney Animation Studios in Orlando Florida where I fell in love with animation and special effects, the experience and knowledge that I acquired plus my degree permitted me to teach Computer Visual Effects at Full Sail Real World Education School in Orlando, Florida.
At present, I am dedicating my time to experimenting with different styles and mediums (watercolor, oil, acrylic, wood, pastels, color pencils, paper) creating works from ideas and inspiration collected from the past and always incorporating my experience into futures works.

My paintings are an expressionistic transformation of what I see. My interpretations are described in strong shapes and color. Rather than documenting a specific place or object. I reconstruct it—reshaping color, scale, and atmosphere to reflect internal states as much as physical terrain. The landscapes, wildlife and florals are deliberately contrived; they are built from emotional impact, memory, distortion, and intuition rather than observation alone.
Through heightened color and bold shapes, I aim to amplify my perception of ordinary environments. Hills bend, skies press inward, and space and shapes shift to mirror tension and intensity. By reimagining the landscape or image, I invite viewers to experience the familiar as something felt rather than simply seen.

My work is the result of exploration. I am a process painter and enjoy using acrylics to get many different layers quickly. The fun comes with unexpected results, and I like that one has to puzzle the images out. Using a random application of gesso on a blank surface, causes interesting shapes and unexpected textures, creating a sense of history.

I love glass. So many fusible gorgeous colors...opaque, transparent, iridized, textured. Gets my creative juices flowing. Making pretty things, home accents, whimsical figures. So much fun. What a blast!