About the Artist
about my art
I am a painter in oils emphasizing western landscape. Much of my work is realist, but I indulge in occasional flights of fancy into more abstract modes. Discovering the formal structures and inherent beauty in scenes and objects around me and rendering those discoveries so that they can be shared are activities of continuing wonder and joy for me. Because discovery motivates my art, I work from my direct experience--my current observation, my photographic record or my imagination.
about my art training
I have studied art in Austin for 10 years, both at the Austin Museum School of Art at Laguna Gloria and privately with Phillip Wade and and Elizabeth Locke.
about me
In my private life I have two children, an artist-stepdaughter, and three grandchildren spread between the Austin and Washington, D.C. areas. I grew up in Austin and I attended the Austin public schools, including the old Stephen F. Austin High School before majoring in music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. I spent the majority of my most active professional life, as an information scientist in the Washington, D.C., area before returning to Austin with my husband in 1996.
When I was a teen-ager I had the great good fortune of being able to spent many wonderful summers climbing in the Colorado Rockies and touring the American West generally. These experiences with parents and family friends instilled my love of landscape. Many of my paintings now depict the Santa Fe, NM, area where my brother and his family have property near Canyoncito.
Since returning to Austin I have been an adjunct faculty member at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and Editor of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. I am a specialist in the organization of information resources and hold an M.L.S and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.