My work is a celebration and reflection on our relationship to the natural environment. It is a thrill to experience changes in light, wind, clouds and precipitation in the course of a painting session. By observing features in land, water, and atmosphere, I seek to create something of that "breath of fresh air" feeling that overcomes us when we are outdoors. The painting process involves both observation and personal response which play out within the parameters of the oil medium. I choose oil mostly because I love the smell.

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BFA in painting from the University of Washington 1992
participated in numerous juried art festivals 2004-2009, Florida
Travels have included countries in South, Central, East Asia, the Middle East and Europe

Even More About:

most recent lunch: roast beef sandwich on a homemade artisanal roll, an Ontario pear, some walnuts, speculaas cookies and chai

favorite actors: Steve Coogan, Laura Linney

favorite motto: time is money

reading: Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson (Youth Fiction)

on the refrigerator right now:

Miro: Woman, Bird and Star (Homage to Picasso) postcard for Seattle Art Museum Show
El Anatsui: Old Man's Cloth, card purchased at Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville Florida
Lisa Gilley: Paradise Valley (cut from a brochure for Bainbridge Island Museum of Art)
Maria Coryell-Martin: Postcard: Imaging the Arctic; Communicating Climate Science through Art, watercolor
A Post Card of an otter with a crab sticking out of its mouth entitled "This, That and the Otter," courtesy of The Sea Dock Society
and a brilliant orange and clear anemone photo on postcard also courtesy of The Sea Dock Society
my daughter's Terry Fox Run bib