Bio
I've been painting landscapes for quite a while, and lately I've been fascinated with two regions of Colorado, the San Luis Valley and North Park. These areas have different geology and landforms but are similar in their open, uncrowded beauty and their long distances that are never lonely but instead beautiful, intricate and full. These places touch the soul in a way that writer N. Scott Momaday said best: "You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space."
In my work I strive to capture that spiritual and transcendent beauty.
I was born in southeast Nebraska and raised on family farms that were homesteaded in the 1860s. My family loved the land and shared with us their joy of traveling out West whenever possible. My ties to the Rocky Mountain region grew from these highly anticipated trips to Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and points beyond, and as a result I moved west to Laramie Wyoming after graduate school.
I earned my B.F. A. in printmaking and painting from the University of Nebraska Lincoln and my M.S. in Library and Information Science from Columbia University in New York, NY. I worked as a university and state agency librarian for many years in Wyoming and Colorado while painting and exhibiting and now paint out of my home studio here in Denver.
I'm presently an Associate Member of the Women Artists of the West. My works have appeared twice in New American Paintings juried publication, Artist Magazine and Escape Into Life literary magazine, as well as in regional and national juried and invitational shows such as The Art of Illusion National Invitational Still Life Show, Pomona, CA, the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, Denver CO, the National Arts Club, NYC, the Red Shift Gallery in Denver, CO, The May Gallery, Beaver Creek CO, the Joyce Robbins Gallery, Santa Fe NM, and the Western Spirit Art Show and Sale in Cheyenne, WY among others.