My full career in art started out with an eye toward illustration. After a year of study in Rome, Italy, I attended The Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA), majoring in illustration. I completed an apprenticeship in a major advertising firm in Chicago and from there explored an interest in medical illustration. My dream of becoming a medical illustrator culminated in a degree from the University of Illinois and certification from The Association of Medical Illustrators. Then after over 25 years as a medical illustrator in staff and freelancing positions I decided to make the leap to painting full-time. My husband and I moved to Montana where we fell passionately for the landscape and the western/ranch way of life.
Selected Juried Exhibitions:
2015 – Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT, ‘Scapes – Land-Sea-Mind’ Group Exhibition
2015 – Penn Gallery, Deer Lodge, MT; Solo Exhibit
2014 -- Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT, ‘Wind + Bones’ Group Exhibition
2015 (X2), 2014 (X2), 2012 (X3), – Art Center College of Design, On-Line Gallery, Featured Works
2015, 2014 – Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT, The 13th Annual Benefit Auction of Miniatures
2015, 2014 – Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT, Art Auction
2013 – Emerson Center for the Arts; Invited to exhibit in ‘Garden Views’
2013 – Lewistown Art Center, ‘Western Round-up’ Group Exhibition
2012 -- International Artist Magazine Landscape Competition, Finalist, Honorable Mention
2010, 09, 08, 07 Montana Interpretations Art Exhibit, Butte, MT ; 2010 3rd Place Award and ? 2007 Best in Oil Award
2010, 09, 08 - Heart of the West Invitational Art Show, Lander, WY
2009 - Solo Exhibition, ‘Nature’s Moods’, MoFAB, Butte, MT
2009 - ‘Work’s on Paper’, Custer Co. Art & Heritage Center, MT
2009-08, - National Small Sculpture Invitational, Palm Desert, CA
2008, 07 - Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ