I’ve always been a bit of a creative soul. When I was a kid, I was drawing, imagining, and creating all the time.

As an adult, I decided to take the plunge and enrolled in a fine arts program at a college in Traverse City, Michigan.
I took classes in drawing, design, and pottery. I did really well and loved all my classes, but I realized that becoming
an artist wasn’t going to make me rich, so I decided to switch gears and get a business degree.

After moving to Colorado in the 1990s, the beautiful scenery inspired me to pick up the arts again. I started taking pottery
classes in Boulder and Golden, Colorado. And then, after I retired in Colorado, I started sketching and also started making
landscape quilts. I’ve had a sewing machine all my life, and I have a machine set up along with an art table, so I’m ready to go wherever inspiration takes me. I’m rarely at a loss for something
to do.

Now, I often find myself watching and practicing watercolor and quilting techniques on YouTube. They’re like rabbit holes that I can’t seem to get out of! I really enjoy them.

Since I moved to Wickenburg, I’ve been taking watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting classes. I’ve even been juried into the Wickenburg Art Center for mixed media and have exhibited in a few shows there.

In 2025, I was lucky enough to be exhibiting in the West of Center art show at the Desert Caballero Western Museum for the second year in a row. I entered a landscape quilt and two watercolor paintings. My watercolor of Vulture Mountain was even selected to be on the literature for the show!