I have always been drawing, there are several generations of artists
in my family, therefore my family encouraged to be an artist. I have a degree
in Fine Art with a concentration in photography.

My educational years abroad at the University of Pisa, Italy.
When in was in Europe I was trying to see as much art as I could,
walking the streets of Florence where Michaelanglo wandered was very romantic.
While visiting Leonardo Da Vinci´ boyhood home in the mountains of Tuscany, Noticing the foggy mountains reflected the aerial perspective he is so famous for in his Mona Lisa. Many people think the Mona Lisa is famous for her smile but technically Leonardo had shown the western world how to show atmospheric perspective, something that had been lost for 600 years. It was then I realized that so many great artist are really saying something from their own personal experience.

I worked in commercial art for many years after college,
and started painting again, while studying the Impressionists
and light theory, My painting started with Italian landscapes
having some good photos and memories to work from, my paintings
were sold in galleries and were published.

My work in pastels started while living in Texas.
With a love of the blue skies and dramatic light of Texas my drawing
was of the seashore of Galveston, Bayou Bend, Memorial Park, and the Houston Skyline. Expanding my different compositions of Texas,
also drawing San Antonio's Alamo and the River-walk.
Soon while was traveling across the United States doing art shows
and taking pictures on my sojourns, included Santa Fe the Grand Canyon,
the coast of California, wandering as far north as Canada, to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

After photographing 400 different varieties of heirloom bearded iris, I became transfixed by floral motifs. After studying buddhism a realization came to me how we were all connected to nature.

A good deal of my work is about gardening which is a doorway to connect to nature. My agents have sold many of my botanical and landscape works to corporations and hospitals. Many people have said to me that seeing my work in the hospital has helped to relax them, Happy that my memories and thoughts in the artwork triggers in the viewers. Whether my flowers remind them of their grandmother's a special garden, or my landscape reminds them of a place they have once visited,

While teaching art I could convey information about drawing and see my students execute the concepts with their own vision and style.
Plato was right, "Art captures either a great beauty or a truth"

Above: photographs of Florence, Italy taken in College
also Galveston, Texas the seashore, Also a photograph
of the Grand Canyon.