California feels like home to me.
A wandering U.S. Foreign Service kid (Japan, Spain, South America, and Washington D.C.), I stayed in the San Francisco Bay area after earning a Mills College B.A. The rough terrain of dry grassy hills scattered with oaks remind me of Spain.
After an M.A. in Painting from San Francisco State University, I worked from my imagination for several years. Sometime in the 90′s the need to honor my home environment surfaced. Now I paint live subjects. I love the accidents and improvisations triggered by the need to seize the moment in paint.