"Color is a fascinating blessing and I’ve always loved to play with it. I didn’t know I could draw until my last semester at SDSU when I took the ‘Art for Teachers’ class. I wanted to explore it, but teaching kindergarten and then motherhood came first until 1987 when I ‘began to art’. Then almost forty, I started taking drawing and painting classes at Mira Costa. Later I took a Palomar JC Extension class in ‘portrait painting’ from Perietta Hester.

I work mainly in watercolor, but have explored some oil media recently. Most of the landscapes are places I’ve traveled or camped with my family. They would explore and I would paint.

I’m focused a lot on my faith, and when I explore with color, that’s what comes out. Most, but not all, of my portraits were done in Perietta’s class from models whose face or pose reminded me of a Biblical character. A few of my compositions are meant to illustrate a spiritual truth. And flowers, well, flowers are irresistible."