Originally from Washington, D.C., I lived in Miami, Florida, for over 25 years before moving to Northern California. I have had the privilege to study Renaissance art and painting extensively in Italy and France with such noted artists as Jack Beal, Sondra Freckleton, and Fred Wessel, as well as further instruction in painting with other fine instructors such as Daniel Greene, Louise Cadillac, and Pat Deadman, to name but a few.

     After moving to California, I began to move away from representative painting. I am now working entirely in an abstract style and primarily in encaustics. To read a short explanation and history of the medium of encaustics, go to History.    

     Diversity, with all its fascinating choices, intrigues me and is evident throughout my work. My love of variety has led me to study quite a few mediums including oils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, egg tempera, gold leaf, glass fusing, mixed media collage and encaustic. The ancient mediums, as well as their themes and images, fascinate me and give me an ever-widening option of expressing the world around me and my relationship to it.

     I paint because to not paint is unthinkable. It totally absorbs and completes me. The sumptuous richness of color and the abundance of texture. The subtle variety of surface markings. Contrasts of smooth, silky wax and rusted, pitted metal. Order and disorder; chaos and plan. These are the concepts that fascinate and attract me.

     My studio is located at the City of Novato Arts Center at Hamilton Field in Novato, California, where I work and teach encaustic Workshops on a regular basis. Active in various artist organizations, I am currently serving as President of the Art League of Northern California and MarinMOCA located at the Novato Arts Center and Vice President of the newly formed International Encaustic Artists.                      

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