oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, graphite, pastels

I trained in Fine Arts as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in the 80’s. I worked briefly as a commercial artist and did freelance graphic art. I moved to Nashville in 1989 with my husband and three kids where I attended Vanderbilt University and became a nurse practitioner and then a nurse midwife in 1994. I never stopped drawing and painting during this time but it was occasionally interrupted due to family and professional responsibilities. In 2016 I retired from my midwifery career at Vanderbilt to return to full time work as an artist.

I am both a 'realistic' and abstract artist. Light and color drive both of them. I work mostly in oil and am particularly fond of cold wax as a medium in my abstract work. My influences are Wayne Thiebaud, Joaquín Sorolla, Richard Schmid, Gustav Klimt. I’ve studied with Terry Miura, Seth Halverson and Thomas Nash. My studio is in Castalian Springs on twenty acres where I live with my musician husband. I have three adult children and one granddaughter.