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The first time I saw a watercolor, I knew I had to learn to paint. When I retired in 1996, I started art classes, and found the second “love of my life”, watercolor painting. In addition, I have studied with contemporary painters Nita Leland, Stephen Quiller, Gerald Brommer, and Robert Burridge, among others.
My paintings are semi abstractions using clean, clear, subjective color, in watercolor and in collage. My passion is rich color, and experimenting with paint and different surfaces; paper, gesso, foil, and canvas. Texture and different papers excite me; collage is a natural addition to my painting.
Nature inspires all my paintings—a rushing stream, snow covered peak, sunrise, sunset, stars, seashells, or wildflowers. That’s from living much of my life in the high mountain country of Northern California and Oregon, full of lakes, streams and conifer forests, and taking annual treks to the beaches.
Great encouragement came from winning my first award “Silver” at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Oregon, as a beginning art student, in 1996. I was poster artist for “Brushes and Blues” at La Purisima Mission in 2000. My drawing “Woman with Attitude” was published in Alan Hancock College’s Harvest in 2001. |
