Bio

I am orginally from southern Indiana, having lived in the midwest all of my life.  I moved to the Columbus, OH area in the summer of 2008.  After graduation from Purdue University in 1977 with a B.A. in Interior Design, I worked as a commercial Interior Designer/Space Planner mainly in the field of health care design.  After marriage and children, I stopped working as a full time designer and devoted my time to raising my children.  This gave me time to pursure art on a part time basis.  While I am mainly self taught , my design background and studio  art classes taken while in college have inspired me to learn even more.  I have taken many workshops and classes and continue to study my craft. I am a member of the Worthington Area Art League, the Central Ohio Plein Air painters group,  the Columbus Colored Pencil Guild and the Colored Pencil Society of America.  I work mainly in two mediums, oil and colored pencil.  Much of my portrait work is commissioned.  For information on how to contact me, see my contacts page.