BFA, MFA, University of Wyoming

 

• My earliest memory is “painting” on my grandparents wall and underneath the dining room furniture. It seems inevitable that I would decide at nine years of age to be an “artist” and I have been following that path ever since.

• My roots are in the western mountain and desert landscape; natural science and Zen. Although I have worked in many media, my formal training was in oil painting with  secondary concentrations in paper making and printmaking. After receiving my MFA in painting from the University of Wyoming, I travelled and taught art in the western states at university and secondary levels.  

• While living in the austere beauty of the Sonoran desert I began working in encaustic and experienced a transformation in my work from figurative to abstraction. I began making paintings that explore endless space not based on perspective and create a dialogue between the expressive mark making and serene colorfields. 

•  Encaustic’s unique qualities allowed me to conflate inner meditative experience with the outer expansive desert in which I lived.

• I am  a member of the artist collective A.C.E. and  a resident artist at the Starline Factory Gallery in Harvard, Illinois. I am currently Vice President of FUSEDChicago (the Midwest professional encaustic artist organization) and Exhibitions Chair.

• My work is in public collections and private collections.