Previous to my retirement as a graphic designer for a small Michigan University, my paintings were quite large, mainly dealing with color field experiments. I painted for the joy of the painterly surface and to solve color challenges, as well as to affect the viewer.

More recently, I have been successful in photography.

I have one of the much older digital cameras - an Olympus Camedia 2000Z with 2.1 megapixels. Compared to the latest camera technology, It is no longer anything "to call home about," but it still thrills me. Since I work to "tell a story" with my images, I don't need lots of "bells and whistles." I use it as a "point and shoot." Then I enhance the image with watercolor or with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Usually, each piece has several photos combined.

On the other hand, some of my photographs are "raw" ... untouched ... with no work done outside the camera. (See "Mandolin with Forsythia") Sometimes, desiring a finer image as I did with "Mandolin," I start thinking of a bigger newer camera ... Shhh!, you didn't hear me say that!

I am a southern lady (Kentucky) living in a northern land - Michigan. I have a BFA in painting from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. I have exhibited widely throughout Michigan and have won many "first place" and "best of show" awards in juried shows in galleries and museums. I have had my own one-woman show at the Saginaw Art Museum (a nationally accredited museum) and at various Michigan galleries, theaters and township halls over the years. I had a one-woman show, "Art in Public Places," Saginaw Township, after a trip to study painting in Giverny, France - Monet's hometown. More recently, I displayed at the Andersen Enrichment Center in Saginaw with very personal digital work of pets -- mine and others'. I viewed the show as "Social Networking, " and included small stories about each piece.

I taught art as faculty and as adjunct at local colleges and at the Saginaw Art Museum. I have been affiliated with several art groups: Michigan Watercolor Artists, Saginaw Area Watermedia Artists, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Saginaw Art Museum and the Scarab Club of Detroit, MI.