Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"I work primarily in watercolor and gouache, sometimes a combination. Shapes and color are what draw me to a subject. I like focusing in, trying to achieve an intimacy and intensity with the close-up view of garden, interior, still-life or figure. When choosing a subject, I am more excited by the abstract design possibilities than by the subject itself and that enthusiasm has recently carried me further into non-realism"

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Puget Sound area shows since 1978 include Northwest Watercolor Society’s Annual and Signature shows; Puget Sound Annual and NWWS Retrospective, Frye Museum; West Coast Printing’s Puget Sound Country shows; Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fairs, Edmonds Arts Festival Annuals; Women Painters of Washington Annual and juried shows and statewide juried show, Washington Convention Center, 2007; University House-Issaquah and Seattle, 2008-09; Guest Artist, Gallery North, 2005
Out of state shows include Montana Watercolor Society’s annuals; Taos Watercolor Society, Taos Art Museum, 2004 and San Diego Watercolor Society International, ’98;
Columbia Tower Gallery, Seattle, 2006 and 2009.

AWARDS

• San Diego Watercolor Society Dick Blick Award, 1998
• “Edmonds in Bloom” poster, 1996
• NW Watercolor Society “Waterworks”, Dos Rhinos Digigraphix Award,’01
•NW Watercolor Society “Rain Dance” award, ’02
• Montana Watercolor Society, “Royal Brush Award”, ’02
• Eastside Association of Fine Arts Award, Women Painters of Washington Annual, ’03
• Edmonds Arts Festival, Honorable Mention, ’06
• Edmonds Arts Festival, “Best of Edmonds” award, ’09
• Allied Art Foundation Award for Volunteer Service to Art Education, 2007
• Second Place Award, Miniature Paintings, Edmonds Arts Festival, 2010
• Best Small Painting, Gallery North, 2010
• 2nd Place, Small Painting, Gallery North, 2011
• Honorable Mention, Miniature Paintings, Edmonds Art Festival, 2011

FEATURED ARTIST

• Karlson/Gray Gallery, Langley, 2007
• Edmonds Arts Commission Gallery, 2004
• Eastshore Gallery, Bellevue, 2003
• Main Street Gallery, Edmonds, 2003
• Gaskill/Oson Gallery, Langley, Whidbey Island, 2003, 2005

PUBLICATIONS

• American Artist Magazine's "Watercolor," fall issue, 2003

AFFILIATIONS

• Signature Member, NW Watercolor Society, Montana Watercolor Society and juried member of Women Painters of Washington and Seattle Co-Arts

EDUCATION

• University of Montana.
• Classes and Workshops with Jerry Stitt, Nelson Sandgren, Christopher Schink, Alex Powers, Pat San Soucie, Frank Webb and Carla O'Connor.

CURRENT REPRESENTATION

• Semantics, Edmonds

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