• ARTIST • WRITER • EDUCATOR

I am a professional artist, an award-winning writer, and an early education specialist with over thirty years of classroom experience. I am also the author/illustrator of Amazing Animals: Fun Facts for Kids, my first children’s book. Filled with fun facts, whimsical rhymes and colorful illustrations, this non-fiction book is both playful and educational— proof that facts truly can be fun!

I have been published in numerous poetry and prose anthologies and was selected as an Artist of Merit in And Yet, Redwood Writers 2020 Poetry Anthology—available on Amazon.com.

As an artist, I refuse to be pinned down by just one style. I am a figurative artist working primarily in acrylic. I am a mixed media/collage artist working with a wide variety of art materials. I am also an illustrator who spent three memorable weeks as a resident artist at Studio Faire in Nérac, France. It was there, in 2019, that I designed the pages and created all the initial sketches for Amazing Animals.

My artwork can be seen at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery in Cloverdale, California. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by.

I live in Santa Rosa California where I share a sunny art studio with my eight year old granddaughter as often as possible.