I was educated at Wellesley College, The School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Arts (BFA, painting) and Antioch University Seattle (MA, Psychology). I’ve had a private practice as expressive arts therapist in Olympia. I’ve taught at New England College, Henniker, NH, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, and various community colleges.
My work has been landscape-based since I was a teenager. One day in 1994, in Vietnam, I looked across Cam Ranh Bay to an island that had the perfect shape, the perfect size, standing perfectly in the sea, nothing extraneous, an island out of a dream. In the years that followed I could not stop painting it. It has, for me, a kind of iconic rightness.
I show my work in Seattle and Olympia, Washington, and in exhibits around the United States. I’ve also shown prints in France and Mexico.