Resume

Together with the creative careers of teaching special education for gifted elementary students and practicing educational therapy, I have enjoyed the arts in both music and visual design. Prism Enterprises, my company selling my jewelry designs, branched out into my hand made quilts in 1987, and into my watercolor paintings in 1990. I was a member of The Artist Gallery in Santa Monica for eight years and have shown my work in several other venues such as street fairs and small galleries.

I have my college degree and master’s accreditation in Education. In the art fields I have studied at the Gemological Institute of America, Brentwood Art School, Otis School of Art and Design, as well as at many workshops here and abroad. My own experimentation as well as welcomed help from many teachers has helped me explore the visual arts. Some of my teachers have been Ann Thornycroft, Tom Wudle, Barbara Ashton, Helga Flower, Scott Yeskel, and Glen Vilpu.

I enjoy painting in oil, acrylic, and watercolor and often use collage or reconstruct torn paintings. My style has varied from realistic florals, vegetables, animals, people and landscapes to totally abstract color saturated experiences. Usually, some life changing experience has influenced my abstract paintings, and I often don’t know what they are about until after I have created the painting. Thus, the reason to paint on, working from a place of unknowing, always discovering.