Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint intuitively, calling on muse and spirit to guide my hand and brush. I am always mindful of the organic & textural aspects of art. The figure has also been a recurring theme this past year. I have been following my golfing family around the course gathering subject matter with pen and ink, watercolor, and camera. I do not golf but needed to be involved in their lives and be able to talk the lingo with them. A series of golfing paintings is evolving. Right now they are acrylics. They are beginning to grow in size and I am experimenting with other media and canvas.

I feel a need for bright and cheerful this year and the golfers fit the bill. I am still doing collage and usually have several pieces going at one time.

JURIED EXHIBITIONS - Selected

2007

• WPW "Viewpoint" at Columbia Center Gallery, Feb-Apr.
• The Gallery, Bainbridge Island, Gallery Artist
• WPW Member Show, Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, Nov.

2006

• NW Collage Society Holiday Art, Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, Nov.
• WPW Celebration Part II The Columbia Center Gallery, Seattlle, Feb., March
• The Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WPW juried show, "The Abstracted Landscape," Mar.
• WPW Member Show, Kirsten Gallery, Seattle, Sept-Oct
• National Collage Society, "Wish You Were Here" Collage Postcards, Akron Ohio
• NW Collage Society, Cancer Lifeline, Apr-May

2005

• WPW Membership Show, Dimensions Gallery, Bellevue, WA
• Esquire Depositions Service Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2004

• Northwest Collage Society at Washington State Convention Center July-Sept
• WPW Membership Show, Flamingo Gallery, Renton
• Olympic College Gallery "Reflections" juried group show, Bremerton, WA Nov 2004

2002

• Aug-Oct 2002 Burien Art Gallery WPW Membership Show
• Bon Marche Gallery, Seattle solo show "Sacred Earth Series"
• Nat'l League of American Pen Women show Checkers Gallery, Poulsbo "Painters, Poets, Writers Collaborate"

2001

• Nat'l League of American Pen Women show, Harrison Gallery, Seattle
• Nordic Heritage Museum "Epic Passages" - juried group show
• Sidney Museum "Eclectic Visions" WPW - membership show
• Roby King Gallery, Port Ludlow - juried show

2000

• Checkers Gallery solo show
• Bainbridge Gallery - featured artist for May

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS AND AFFILIATIONS

• Women Painters of Washington, juried member
• Northwest Collage Society
• National Collage Society
• National League of American Pen Women, juried member, arts
• Surface Design Association, juried member
• Charter Member, National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Juror of Arts Scholarship presented by Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Inc. - 1999, 2001
• Apprentice to Fayrene Parrish in professional collagraph studio - 1985, 1986
• Owned and operated "The Traveling Gallery" - 1969-72
• Lectured on collagaph printmaking and the business of art to various groups

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