I began painting in 2001 alongside my artistic mother who was in her final months battling pancreatic cancer. It was over a year before I picked up a brush following her death. At this time I had an outside-of-time moment while at a book café in Carmel, CA. A book there struck something in my heart. I called the well known artist/gardener, Elizabeth Murray, and met with her. Elizabeth became client, friend and eventually my mentor. My mother awakened the artist in me; Elizabeth nurtured me in my art.
With a degree in graphic design from California College of Arts and currently an interior designer, I fully appreciate the arts. I combine my 16 years of ongoing study in Feng Shui with His Holiness, Grandmaster Lin Yun, to help clients achieve a healthier and more successful environment.
As fate would have it, an opening was offered in a watercolor workshop to Provence, France with well known watercolorist, Marie Gabrielle, from Santa Cruz, CA. Upon returning home from this workshop I realized it was with a joyous craving that it was time to apply myself to this learning process. I have enjoyed my studies with Bonni Carver, Linda Wells, Claire Verbiest, and Bill Fravel. I work in both pastel and watercolor mediums. One is dreamy and softer, the latter more from my illustrator background. Painting is now a lifelong passion of personal growth as I develop my romantic paintings of nature and travel to share with others.
Graduated from Camarillo High School
Camarillo, CA
Bachelor of Arts Degree from California
College of Arts
1st Place and 3 Honorable Mentions
Santa Cruz
County Fair
September 2007
Best Watercolor of Central Coast Exhibit
3rd Place - 2007
Member of Santa Cruz Art League
Member of Central Coast Arts
Honorable Mention
Bodega Bay Fishermens Festival
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