About the Artist

Being born and raised in horse country in Michigan, I grew up living close to nature. Trees, gardens and animals were part of everyday life and my earlier art reflects that close connection. I graduated Michigan State University in Psychology and continued with graduate studies in Business and Psychology after moving to California, where I developed management teams and resolved conflicts in large organizations. This focus on how people react and relate continues to drive the content of my more recent art. My love of art led me back to school, years later, to study and practice art, design, sculpture, and metal arts. I am active in the California art groups Fiber Dimensions, EDGE, PLEXUS, Currents, Marin Arts Council, and Marin Society of Artists, and show my work in exhibitions throughout the year. I have been represented in galleries in Sedona, Arizona and Sausalito, California. In 2009 I installed permanent public art in the form of a large tree "weeping" for the environment, at the Marin Art & Garden Center in Ross, California, and participated in the public Obelisk commemorating the history of San Anselmo in Marin County, California.  

Public Art

Marin Art & Garden Center, Sculpture Garden, Ross, CA

    Tree of Tears, permanently installed Spring 2009,

   News coverage at http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/

Obelisk commemorating San Anselmo history, participant, CA 2005

Selected Exhibits

Juror & Exhibitor - Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, CA, 2010

ACCI Gallery Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc, National Exhibition 2010

Juried by Maria Medua

Marin County Fair Fine Arts Exhibition,July 1-5, 2010

ACCI Gallery, Fiber 2010, Berkeley, CA, April - May 2010

Zero Breast Cancer’s Honor They Healer, Mill Valley, CA 2010

Falkirk Cultural Center, 2010 Annual Exhibit, Juried  by Donna Seager

San Rafael, CA 2010

Doug Adams Gallery at Bade Museum, Muse/Reuse: Visual Reflections on

    Sustainability, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA 2010

Sanchez Art Center, 1 in 100: America Behind Bars, Pacifica, CA 2010

PariSoma, Waste Knot, San Francisco, CA 2010

Arts Guild of Sonoma, Artists Holiday Invitational, Sonoma CA, 2009

Fort Mason, Green Dimensions, San Francisco, 2009

Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, fiber/Dimensions, 2009
          

Marin Society of Artists, featured artist May 2009

Studio 333, Artists’Open Studios, Sausalito, CA 2009
          

Marin Civic Center, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, 2008 - 20009
          

Berkeley Art Center, Annual Showcase, Berkeley,2008 - 2009
         

Arts Benicia, EDGE, Benicia, CA, 2008       
          

Smith Ranch Gallery,  fiber/Dimensions, San Rafael, CA, 2008
          

ACCI Gallery, EDGE Art Group, Berkeley, CA, 2008

Marin Arts Festival, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA 2007
          

ACCI Gallery, Recovery, Berkeley, CA 2007
          

Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio: fiber/Dimensions 

    Intersections III,  San Francisco CA 2006
          

Pence Gallery, fiber/Dimensions at Pence, Davis, CA 2006
          

Artisans Gallery, Absolutely Abstract Exhibit, San Rafael, CA 2006
          

Marin Society of Artists, Open Sculpture & Crafts, Ross, CA 1998 -2010
          

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Buzz,  Mill Valley, CA 2005
          

California Ceramic Artists Annual Exhibits, Davis, CA 2004, 2005
          

Art of Politics Juried Exhibit, Democracy For America, Sausalito, CA 2005
  

College of Marin Gallery, Fine Arts Exhibits, Kentfield, CA 2002, 2005
          

Marin County Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibit, Terra Linda, CA, 2004 -2009

San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006