Miami, Florida, where I was born in 1949 and spent intervals between my father's Air Force assignments in Europe, infused me with  a love of music, dance and the idea of the creative life while impressing upon my mind's eye the colors and forms of the subtropics.

As a teenager I lived in the small eastern North Carolina town of Rocky Mount. How dull, you might think, for a girl from Miami who had lived in Europe for years...Not dull at all! An arts scholarship to the 1967 Governor's School introduced me to figurative oil painting . Even then my favorite subjects were musicians and dancers, my fellow students. I would draw them during their rehearsals amazed at their talents.

Between 1968 and 1972 I studied a variety of styles in painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Upon leaving school I returned to figurative painting and found my voice in my own style of Modernism.

After a bit of the gypsy life, traveling from New England to the Rockies, I settled  in New Orleans for a few years. It was there I began painting musicians, those who were not famous but who devoted their lives to their art with little expectation of financial reward.  To this day I continue to be inspired by these artists.

Back in Florida during the 80’s and 90’s, first in Sarasota and then Miami, developing a working studio and gallery, an active exhibition schedule and a wide range of subjects I enjoyed a growing audience for my work. A relationship with Rosenstiel’s, a fine art publisher and artist’s agent in London, England, introduced my work to collectors in the UK and Europe.

Returning to North Carolina in 2000, building a spacious studio in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I have new inspiration in nature.  The land, the people, animals, the very joy of life in Appalachia have brought  to me a sense of finally being Home.