I first started my creative journey as a child when I would cut up magazines to make collages with my mom. But it was during the 60's in San Francisco when my world exploded with color, spiritually and creatively. The time in which I was living allowed for experimental and brave use of whatever creative juices were flowing at the time. I drank wine out of coke bottles on Haight St with Janis, attended the First Human Be-In with Allen Ginsberg and "danced underneath the diamond sky" with everyone else. I danced in the mud at Woodstock and handed out free food. "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for half a million people." This period was to have a profound affect upon me for my entire life. I was deeply influenced by the rock posters artists, Mouse Kelly, Rick Griffen and far too many others to list here. But their use of color was fantastic! I fell in love with the Graphic Arts and was overjoyed at the birth of Pop Art.

I had planned to go on to art school in the early seventies, but an unexpected pregnancy (who is now my gorgeous son living on the do-right plan as my grandfather would say) put me in a position of having to opt out for a more "realistic" career. Coming to age in the 60's, I have a very deep belief in the common good and personal freedom so I thought I would be best suited for a career in Social Work. I went on for the next 25 years doing exactly that. I worked primarily with women and their children who were victims of domestic violence in a time where there were no shelters or even a public awareness of the problem.

In my art there is always an element of joy or hope. Some people have attempted to interpret this as an unwillingness to deal wih darker issues, but there are plenty of artists that do that in their work. I have seen some of the worst aspects of the human condition in my life and it left me with the belief that all of us, have a right to be happy, no matter what ills we have suffered. Without hope there is nothing. A woman who lives in New York told me that seeing my work was the first time she had been able to "see" color since 9/11. She wrote, "Your art is magical - it is like waking up in a lyrical world of promise and color where nothing will turn to ash." Wow. Cool!

I have sold my work to hundreds of art collectors all over the globe and have enjoyed being able to speak with many of them. Selling my art directly to the public has opened my life in ways I never could have imagined. I also do commissions and if you have a special request please feel free to contact me. Let me create something for you in my distinctive, whimsical style. My prices are also very reasonable in this uncertain economy and I am also willing to take payments. I can provide you with several references from many of my satisfied customers.

I live in Portland, Oregon in a small art studio and spend most of my time creating art and spending time with my grandsons, Gage and Cole. I am also working on a huge project to re-introduce the public to the music of my grandfather, Willard Robison. His catalog of music is archived at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and the Insitute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Soon I plan on creating a few paintings based on his lyrics. I also read, cook. sew and love independent films. And sometmes I like to sit around and do absolutely nothing but think.