Biography

Shortly after earning my MFA from UC Berkeley, I moved from my hometown of Oakland to Santa Cruz where I still live and work. Our coastal landscape is the inspiration for my paintings and prints.

My work has been included in exhibitions at The Monterey Museum of Art, The Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz, The Pacific Grove Art Center, the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica and the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts in Los Angeles. I have been nominated for a Rydell Fellowship and am a member of The California Society of Printmakers, The Monterey Peninsula College Printmakers and The Printmakers at the Tannery. I serve on The Santa Cruz County Arts Commission currently as chair and the Friends of the Santa Cruz County Public Libraries as the director of Art in the Scotts Valley Library, hanging four shows a year.

I recently retired from teaching at both Monterey Peninsula College and West Valley College where I got a lot of joy from mentoring my students. From 2010-2020, I co-organized a series of art talks at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz and I have curated several shows, two of which travelled to the Czech Republic. In 2017 and 2018 respectively, I traveled to Iceland for an art teachers’ exchange and to Cuba for an immersive printmaking workshop.

I’m always excited about what I am creating at the moment. My recent work follows a trajectory I have been on for a while- walking in local open spaces, photographing the trees I encounter on the trail and returning to my studio to make paintings and prints based on those photos.

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