I grew up on the cattle ranch homesteaded by my family in Southwest Wyoming on the Cottonwood creeks between Pinedale and Big Piney, WY.  The love of ranch life, animals, wildlife and the great outdoors started before I started grade school! I began painting with my artist Grandma at about age 8 or 9.   I had about a 20 year hiatus during my school years and started painting again as a new mother.  My career,  married life and raising my daughter got in the way of my painting for about 40 years but I’m back at it with a vengeance now. I started taking online mentoring through the Tucson Art Academy during the Covid pandemic and have continued with Matt Smith, a renowned Scottsdale artist as my mentor/coach.

 Other than my Grandmother’s guiding hand and a year of Art at the University of Wyoming I have been primarily self-taught. My voracious online studies really took off during the Covid lockdown when I discovered the Tucson Art Academy Online (TAAO) in 2020.  I can’t say that I’m a new artist, but I am relatively new at selling my art.  I sold a few pieces when I was a new mother, but pretty much quit painting for nearly 50 years.  When I started studying and painting through the Tucson Art Academy I was running out of space for all the paintings I was doing and friends and family started buying them which was keeping me in art supplies. So I started a Facebook page and my sales started increasing.  I have done quite a few commissioned pieces and am hoping to find new outlets.