I have always been an artist, painting in acrylic, watercolor, pastel and now oil with cold wax medium. I have led a long
and successful career in sculpting in stone with my pieces on show around the country. My focus is now abstract art and photography.

I picked up a camera for the first time in 2017 when I retired from my medical career as a nurse practitioner specializing in emergency pediatrics in Santa Barbara, CA. I took up photography so I could have a portable art medium rather than bring all my paints etc. on our camping trips around the country. I instantly fell in love with photography due to the many possibilities of composing a photograph as in a paintings striving for simplicity, color harmony, composition, light and contrast.

I am self-taught in photography and painting with a few workshops under my belt. I love both the painting and photography mediums and I often combine my photography with my paintings as inspiration or incorporate them together in collage.

I have come to love the complex simplicity and the light of the desert. I find inspiration for my art expression from the beautiful
sunrises, sunsets and abundance of clouds during monsoon season. I also love photographing flowers with my close-up
camera lens and try to capture a vision of a flower that a person does not usually expect to see, a new way to see a flower.

When I go to photograph at the rodeo grounds, I try to find a photo that reflects a special moment in time for either the horses, riders or the spectators.

I once photographed a bronco rider kneeling in prayer before his ride, that’s the type of photograph I love to capture.