Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"The medium I use is acrylic tube paint and house paint. My subject matter is the landscape. I abstact my shapes and use Cezanne as a model for my construction.

I paint from something, whether it is a sketch or a photo. My color is saturated and usually not mixed. I am a studio artist, and work on many paintings at the same time."

I attended the University of Colorado, La Verne University, Citrus College, Monterey Peninsula College, Pacific Lutheran Univesity, Evergreen College and the University of Puget Sound where I received my B.A. in Art

I have taught painting in California and the Northwest.

My studies were with major artists and I was influenced by the impressionist and post impressionist painters as well as Bay Area artists of the 60's. The abstract painters of the East were also a big influence on me.

• Peninsula Art League, Gig Harbor, WA
• Seattle Convention Center, Award
• International Culture House, Kyoto, Japan

• Mercer Island Gallery, Award
• Western Washington State Fair, Award
• Seattle Convention Center, Award

• Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, WA, Best of Show Award

• Karpeles Museum, Tacoma
• Childhood's End Gallery
• Western Washington State Fair, Award
• Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, WA, Best of Show Award
• Japan/USA Sumi Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan

• ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle
• Kirkland Art Center, Award
• Western Washington State Fair

• Edmonds Community College
• Mercer Island Gallery, Award
• Western Washington State Fair

• Western Washington State Fair
• Clymer Museum, Landscape Show, Ellensburg, WA
• Puget Sound Sumi Artists Show, Washington State Convention Center
• Japan/USA Sumi Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan

• Adam East Museum and Art Center, Moses Lake WA
• Everett Center for the Arts, Everett, WA
• Seattle Asian Art Museum

• Handforth Gallery, Tacoma
• Annie Wright Gallery, Tacoma
• Lakewood Library Gallery
• Thompson Gallery, Olympia
• Burien Art Gallery, WA
• Kyoto Japan Art Gallery
• Sand Piper Gallery, Tacoma
• Random Modern Gallery, Seattle
• South Seattle Community College
• Amy Burnett Gallery, Bremerton, WA
• Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
• Lakeside Gallery, Kirkland, WA

• Art Rentaloft, Seattle Art Museum, '81-85
• Matzke-Runnings Gallery, Seattle, '85-87

• Taught children's art class at Scripps College, Claremont, CA
• Judge for Pacific Gallery Artists Show, Tacoma Community College, WA
• Museum staff volunteer, CA and WA
• Member, Puget Sound Sumi Artists
• Member, Women Painters of Washington, 1998-present
  

• BA in Painting, Univ. of Puget Sound, 1975
• Studied at Univ. of Colorado, Citrus College, CA and Monterey Peninsula College, CA.

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