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Bio
 Putting a life on paper, in three short paragraphs, is disappointingly two dimensional. How
do I distill all the currents, deep and shallow, that pulled me over sixty years to this place, Lake Almanor? So here are
the basics, flat and colorless: I grew up in southern California with the lives of tens of thousands of people flowing in
constant motion around me. Graduating CSU at Fullerton with an art degree, followed by a Secondary Teaching Credential, I
anchored myself first at Warren High School in Downey where I taught drawing and painting, ceramics, and crafts for fifteen
years. In 1985 I followed the population flow, and my husband, to the San Diego area and moored at Poway High School for seventeen
years. I had the delightful experience of also teaching photography there for several years along with drawing and painting
and Advanced Placement Studio Art, a college level class that introduced me to a flotilla of amazingly creative young people
of good character, whose ambition I still stand in awe of.
My own artistic endeavors were of necessity carried out only
in my head (conceptual art?), too much to do, too little time, until 2002 when I retired. Now, in a studio of my own, here
at Lake Almanor I am free to revisit a few unfinished favorite pieces, saved over the years from interrupted summer vacations,
and reclaim my personal journey as an artist.
My roots are in the New Realist movement of the 70's and 80's, but age and
awareness, and living in this mercurial mountainous wonderland urges me to explore a more mystical connection between human
beings and their environment. I sense intuitively a rhythmic energy that permeates everything. There is some undefinable thing
that runs through us and our physical world, uniting us with it, imparting a sense of wholeness and belonging. It is this
mystery that I pursue in my current art.
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