BIO

During the period between 1967-1971, she lived in Los Angeles, painted professionally and exhibited in numerous galleries. Solo large scale works included in various juried shows such as The Younger Artist Exhibit, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968, and several shows on La Cienega Boulevard, including one woman show at The Molly Barnes Gallery 1969. I also organized and taught art in independent and public workshops. 1971: travelled and painted, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, England, India, and Nepal. 1972: Moved to Santa Cruz, CA. 1976: Settled in Bonny Doon, CA, established her current art studio on the edge of Wilder State Park.

Education

• Master of Fine Arts, Painting (D.A.D. Honors), 1967,
• College of Art and Design, Manchester University, England

Selected Exhibitions

• Solo show of photographs with poetry at Resources for Women, Santa Cruz.
• Local Color, Monterey Bay Sanctuary Invitational.
• Primal Visions Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 1994.
• The Meeting of Earth and Spirit, The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA, 1994.
• Open Studio, Santa Cruz Cultural Council, Santa Cruz, CA, 1994.
• 20-20 Insight, 40 Contemporary Artists, Galleria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA, 1995.
• Womens Caucus for Art Show, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 1995.
• Cultural Council Open Studio Tour, Santa Cruz, CA, 1995.
• Monoprint Marathon, Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA. 1996.
• Cultural Council Open Studio Tour, Santa Cruz, CA, 1996.
• Cultural Council Exhibit, Hearts for the Arts 1997, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997.
• Monterey Bay Womens Caucus for Art Show, Womens Cente.
• University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997.
• Solo show at Gallery Tonzanita, San Juan Bautista, 1999.
• Exemplary Contemporary, 2003.
• Juried show at Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2003.
• Image + Process = Content. Explorations in Printmaking and Mixed Media. Pacific Grove Art Center, 2003.
• American Experience, Honorable mention, Annual National Show Santa Cruz Art League Santa Cruz, California, 2004.
• Four Visions, Color and Light of the Central Coast, Four artist show, Galeria Tonantzin, Center for Contemporary Art San Juan Bautista, California, August 2004.
• Natural Seduction, Pajaro Valley Art Gallery, Watsonville, California, May-July 2004 .
• Mixed Media Mavericks. Two person show with D Hooker, Institute for Contemporary Art Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, September 1-30, 2004.
• The Dog Show, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA, September-October, 2005.
• The Practiced Eye, Galleria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA. Three person show of new work with Jenny Morton and Christiana Hunnicutt, July-August, 2006.
• Dog Show: Every Artist has their Day, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA, October-November, 2006.
• Unleashed, Art Exhibit of Man's Best Friend, Santa Cruz County Bank, November, 2006