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."

AWARDS

2006

• Edmonds Arts Festival, Honorable Mention

2002

• "NW Watercolor Society, "RainDance Merchandise Award"
• Montana Watercolor Society, "Royal Brush Award"
• Eastside Association of Fine Arts Award, WPW Annual

2001

• NW Watercolor Society "Waterworks" Dos Rhinos Digigraphix Award

1998

• San Diego Watercolor Society Dick Blick Award

1996

• "Edmonds in Bloom" poster

PUBLICATIONS

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

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

GALLERIES

• Karlson/Gray Gallery, Whidbey Island
• Semantics Gallery, Edmonds

EXHIBITIONS

Puget Sound area shows since 1978, including NW Watercolor Society's Annual and Signature shows; Puget Sound Annual (Frye Museum), West Coast Printing's Puget Sound Country, Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair, WPW Annual Shows. Also the following:

Multiple Year Entries

1995 - 2006

• Edmonds Arts Festival (2006 Honorable Mention)

1983, 1995, 1999, 2002

• Northwest Watercolor Society Annual Show

1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003

• NWWS Annual Signature Show

1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2006

• Montana Water Media Annual

• Taos Watercolor Association Annual, Taos Art Museum

• North Seattle Community College, WPW "Primary Colors"
  

• Arts West Invitational, Seattle
• "Waterworks," NW Watercolor Society
• Nordic Heritage Museum

• NW Watercolor Retrospective '99, Frye Museum
• Women in the Arts, Frye Museum
  

1998

• San Diego Watercolor Society International '98
• Seattle Pacific University
• Kado Tearoom, Seattle Art Museum

1997

• "A Woman's Gallery," Seattle

EDUCATION

• University of Montana.
• Classes and Workshops with Jerry Stitt, Perry Acker, Nelson Sandgren, Christopher Schink, Deanne Lemley, Frank Webb, Alex Powers, Pat San Soucie.

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