I started folk art painting while living in the Deep South. Southern folk artists like Mose T. who painted on what I call “reckless mediums (old wood, and fallen house shingles) inspired me. This style, free and spontaneous, was complimentary to the way I had been taught to think about art: that art came from the purest, truest and most spontaneous part of ourselves.

 

So on the eve of my fortieth birthday I was sitting in a dental chair in Montgomery, Alabama and I hated what they were doing to me. The equipment was outdated and the whole thing made me think that I couldn’t possibly turn forty betraying my inner voice. So, I leapt out of the dental chair and went home and started painting. And while I did in fact return to a better dentist, I never stopped painting. I studied science, but have always been an artist.

 

I am from the San Francisco Bay Area. My Bachelor’s Degree is in biology.  I married a naval aviator and traveled extensively. In our travels I have been inspired to create. My creations are in collections all over the world. I have had a recent solo show at the Children’s Museum of Virginia; exhibited at the National Museum for Women in the Arts; I am a lifetime member of the Torpedo Factory in the Washington D.C. area; I have pieces in notable collections. Even First Lady Laura Bush has received a Sissy Painting as a birthday gift.