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The act of creating has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. As an only child I entertained myself making clothes for frogs, having tea parties with my dog and cat, creating plays with neighborhood friends, designing paper doll clothes, and drawing. I lay on the floor and copied paintings from art books. In fourth grade I was selected to paint part of a mural on the wall of the school cafeteria...Dutch children in their native costumes. I’ve studied dance, been active in theater groups, designed needlepoint canvases and clothes, written short stories, designed costumes for theater groups, created curricula for school systems and training modules for scientific labs. In my lifetime, I’ve stuck my toe in so many creative endeavors, I’ve lost count, but art has always been the foundation to everything else.
I studied drawing and painting at Silvermine Art School in New Canaan, Connecticut, the Art League of Houston, Texas, and Laguna Gloria in Austin, Texas, as well as with individual instructors and independent study in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. Over time, I’ve worked with oils, watercolors acrylics and collage. And have shown work at international and national juried exhibits, solo shows, galleries, on-line, at invitationals and in print. Today I live and paint in the Texas Hill Country and Marfa, Texas, deriving enormous connection from the ancestral muses of these places.
With a doctorate in adult learning and organizational change, I worked at a research lab in Houston, Texas, for 20 years, with scientists and engineers to develop ways to transfer their technology to company affiliates. A big part of my job was to make complex abstract concepts understandable and applicable in the workplace. This is very similar to what I want my abstract art to do, to make the complex accessible. Prior to that, as a school counselor I used art and play therapy in a Houston-area school district in working with children.
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