As a Creative Writing Major in the post-Vietnam days, I struggled to find an imaginative voice to express certainties in uncertain times. It is a struggle in which I admit failure as a wordsmith. It wasn’t until I moved to Southern California and began to view the world through the eyes of her local artists that it came to me. The older model did not allow for the expression of the dualities that constitute a lived life e.g. joy/despair, fear/excitement, disappointment/encouragement. It was something in the air. More specifically, it was something in the light. Here in Southern California we have an extraordinarily clear, warm and colorful light in which we live gritty, lonely, despairing and often triumphant lives. Artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Frank Romero, Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney and Robert Irwin opened my eyes to new possibilities.

My paintings are about the journey we all take individually. I use the old metaphor of a road. Though most of us never venture off well paved highways, no one is immune to the unexpected detours, wash-outs or unexpected curves. How we manage these rough spots is how we have become who we are.

My art education has been long and peripatetic. My formal education includes classes at the University of New Orleans, Glendale College and Los Angeles Community College without degrees. I have also had private classes or instruction in the US as well as in Mexico and Peru.

Pasadena Society of Artists
2008 PSA 83rd Annual Exhibition, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale CA
2006 PSA White’s Gallery, Montrose CA

2005 Gallery 1140
2004 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma WA
2004 Inshallah Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2003 Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock CA
1999 -2004 Art/Song (ASC)
2000 California Center, Sacramento CA
1999 Castle Green, Pasadena CA
1998 Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA
1996, 1997 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
1993 Coos County Museum of Art, Coos Bay OR
1992 1993 Glendale College, Glendale CA
1990 LA City College, Los Angeles CA

2006-p Pasadena Society of Artists

1974 BA in Creative Writing, University of Washington, Seattle WA