A native Californian, I was born and raised in Santa Clara Valley, the “Valley of Heart’s Delight” once renowned for its idyllic vistas of orchards and vineyards. Memories of that childhood as well as the rich landscapes throughout northern California and the Pacific coastline are etched in my mind, souvenirs, touchstones of my life.

After earning my art degree I did not start painting again until I spent twelve years in the deep stillness of the Texas Hill Country. When I returned to Northern California to live in Sonoma, my painting shifted from traditional landscape to abstract work, a gestural and intuitive expression of homecoming, of place, of all that came before.

Landscape still influences my painting practice but not in a subjective way. Exploitation of the painting process - exalting the mark, mining the gesture - became the mandate. The work is a physical meditation on process and memory.

My paintings have been shown in juried exhibitions across the United States, including the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, 311 Gallery in Raleigh, and the River Arts Center in Wisconsin. My work has received awards and accolades for more than a decade.

After a lifetime of longing to paint I am finally fully engaged in making the work I have been imagining forever.