I love living in So. California, verry close to Laguna Beach!  It is beautiful and inspiring with so many Art related happenings!  I paint in oils and I do a  lot of studio paintings from life.  Setting my Still Life's are fun and it takes a long time for me to get the right composition, mood and effect, but certainly worth the time!

I love the play of light on objects and flowers.  The shadows help to dramatize the paintings and are an important part.  I have had quite a lot of Artistic influences in workshops with such masters  like David Leffel, Jeff Watts, John Cosby, Jackie Kamin, Daniel J. Keys and others whose work I admire.  I study their works,  I learn from them, they help me in my Artitic journey.  I am always a student of Arts!

I have won several awards, have been featured in Southweat Art as "Artists to watch" and I am represented by Arist Eye Gallery in Laguna Beach and Cottage Gallery in San Juan Capistrano.   I love painting still life and floral paintings, but I also do figurative and landscapes.