About the Artist

I've been interested in art from a very early age.

My junior high school art teacher was the one who first recognized my talent, and allowed me to attend his advanced art class. I loved it from day one and was a very eager student. But soon I was whisked away to England for my last year of high school, leaving my dear art teacher behind. The art room at the new school was an immediate disappointment and I was never challenged artistically there.

From England I went to Truman University formerly known as Northeast Missouri State University. After earning my B.F.A., I became an art teacher, moved to Newfoundland, Canada, and landed a job at a junior high school. For the next 25 years, I strove to keep my art up to date while teaching full time.

Through those years of teaching I explored many different media including sand blasting glass, printmaking, watercolor, pen & ink, gouache etc. I also became involved with St. Michael's Printshop, Eastern Edge Gallery, RCA Gallery (Which is now re-named A1C), and VANL-CARFAC Visual Artist of Newfoundland and Labrador, four successful artist-run organizations. I learned a great deal about my passion, and soon came to realize that I wanted to be a serious artist.

I've been in retirement for several years now and have been involved in various exhibits. I am still discovering new techniques and abilities that I was not able to realize while I was working. I've been involved with an Artist group that works at the Botanical Gardens on a weekly basis. I'm learning about new plants and loving my own garden since I now have so much more knowledge about the plants and flowers that I paint. In addition, there are a group of woman artists that were also former teachers who come together on a regular basis to hash out art. It's such a vibrant, exuberant group that art just becomes infectious from one to the other. We have artists retreats in Bunyan's Cove and do various workshops on our own and at various venus.

I am currently represented by Spurrell Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland and State of the Arts Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

This place is unique. It is a place where ancient travelers came to scoop fish out of the sea at L'Anse Aux Meadows, and Red Bay. There have been early native people at Port au Choix to later settlers at Ferryland who used this land in order to survive or to prosper. All of these factors tie into my great respect for our landscape. It is rough, unpredictable, harsh, beautiful, solitary and ancient. I want to paint it all!

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