CV
Education
BFA 1985
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA
Additional Studies 1979-1982
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Shows
Summer Open Juried Exhibition
West Portal Gallery - August 28 - October 1, 2026
San Francisco, CA

CALeidescope: Evolving Reflections of California
Bedford Gallery- July 11 - September 13, 2026
Walnut Creek, CA

East Bay Abstract Painters
Moraga Library - July 2026
1500 St Marys Rd, Moraga, CA

Innovations
Studio 55 - July/August 2025
55 Howe Road, Martinez, CA

Visions Unseen: The Art of Abstraction, 
Walnut Creek Civic Library - October 2024
Walnut Creek, CA

Contemporary Abstraction, 
Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, March 2019
Lafayette, CA

Group Show - Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery
June 2019, San Ramon, Ca

Mysteries From The Trail - Solo Exhibition
diPietro Todd Salon - May 2019
1919 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA

Group Show: Toad Fish Gallery - June - August 2018
686 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA

Affiliations:
Contra Costa Plein Air Group
Walnut Creek Civic Arts Association
Lamorinda Arts Alliance
East Bay Abstract Painters

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My paintings start before I reach the studio. I take a visual inventory during my daily walks in Walnut Creek California. I observe the light of the changing seasons. I am inspired by the seasonal color combinations of the trees, the sky, and of the budding flowers. Once in the studio, I draw from these experiences and paint from memory. I approach each canvas with a sense of rebellion - against rules, convention, and predictability. What remains is risk taking, energy, and courage. For these reasons, I am naturally an abstract expressionist painter. The act of painting itself is the art for me. To let go and to get into the zone allows for a successful painting. The consistency of the paint - specifically applying thick strong brushstrokes in order to make acrylic paint appear similar to oil paint is my goal. Color is used boldly and deliberately. Composition evolves with the painting. I often work rapidly. I do not attempt to copy the natural world, only to express it - to create something new from my subconscious. My practice of Transcendental Meditation allows me to access this part of myself by diving deeper into my creativity. It has become an essential part of my art practice as well as my life as a whole. 

My early art training from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., to my studies at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI., then earning my B.F.A. degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, have all shaped me as a fine artist. I have shown my work in galleries in the East Bay 
and Sausalito. 

With each new season, a new series is created, bringing excitement and fulfillment as I see my growth as an artist.