Born &
Raised:
Detroit, MI
Training:
1980-1985 Summers
at the Henry Hensche Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, MA; 1983 BFA,
Illustration, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA; 1977-1980 City College,
San Francisco, CA; 1972 BFA Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit,
MI
Major Influences:
"Impressionistic
color I learned from Henry Hensche, who was Charles Hawthorne's assistant
and took over the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA when Hawthorne
died."
Favorite Painters:
Joaquin Sorolla,
Frank W. Benson, Cecilia Beaux, Richard Schmid, John Singer Sargent
Shows:
3rd &
4th Annual Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Invitational Competition;
2000 Plein-Air Painters of America Catalina Island Show; 1998-2000 Impressionaire,
La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA; 1999 & 2000 Plein-Air Tucson,
Venture Fine Arts, Tucson, AZ; Annual Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA;
Annual Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA;1998 Denise Roberge Gallery,
Palm Desert, CA; 1997 Recent Landscapes, Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco;
1997 Gallery One, Petaluma, CA; 1991 Portrait of a Place, Chateau St. Jean,
Kenwood, CA
Galleries:
James J. Rieser
Fine Art, Carmel; The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe
Teaching:
1998 to present
Teacher/founder with Richard McDaniel, Pacific Academy of Fine Arts, year-round
classes as well as special workshops, Sebastopol Center for the Arts,
Sebastopol, CA; 1995-present Workshops in Northern California; 1994-1996
Summer workshops in the South of France
Clubs &
Societies:
Signature member
of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, California Art Club, American
Impressionist Society, National Association of Women Artists; Artist Member
of the California Art Club
Awards:
2001& 2002 Honorable
Mention, Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA; 2001& 2002 Honorable Mention,
Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA; 2000 First Place Painting, Sausalito Art
Festival, CA; 1999 People's Award & Artist's Award, Hamilton Home Town
Festival; Judge's Award, Bodega Bay Allied Arts; First Place for Nontraditional
Plein-Air Painting, Plein-Air Painting Festival, Tuscon, AR; 1997 National
Landscape Competition, Second Place, The Artist's Magazine, December; 1993
San Francisco Society of Illustrators, Judge's Choice, Silver and Honorable
Mention; 1992 National Landscape Competition, Third Place, The Artist's
Magazine, December; 1987 National Landscape Competition, Third Place, The
Artist's Magazine, December; Illustration West 26, Gold Medal, Institutional;
1983 Academy of Art Annual, 2 Awards of Excellence; 1982 Academy of Art
Annual, 4 Awards of Excellence
"Color that expresses
the effects of atmosphere can make even the most mundane subject strikingly
beautiful. My paintings could be called 'celebrations of mood,' and I often
go back to the same location at different times of the day in order to
capture its mood in literally a whole new light. Windows and doorways both
hold back and let in light. They intrigue me, as do shadows, which take
on an 'objectness' even though they are insubstantial. Shifting light is
my passion - whether it entices you along a dappled California roadway,
transforms a modest cottage in southern France into a castle, or turns
an indoor garden into a riot of sensuality."
