Biography | Resume | Art Workshops & Retreats

 

In 1994, when I relocated to the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I intentionally designed my life in such a way that I spend my entire day moving from one creative project to another. I draw, paint, write, teach art classes/workshops/retreats, make sock monkeys, knit baby hats and sweaters.

My days are full of light and joy in doing what I love. I begin my day with gratitude and end my day in thanksgiving.

My spirituality is an integral part of my life. I live a quiet, simple life incorporating my meditative perspective into my work.

I have had a life filled with a wide variety of experiences. In the 1960’s, I questioned the world as an Honors Philosophy major in college. During the summer between my transition from college to graduate school, I worked in Washington DC as a summer intern for the Legislative Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 1970’s and early 1980’s I enjoyed the excitement and challenge of corporate life in Denver working for KHOW Radio and Frontier Airlines. I later opened my own promotions company in Denver. I traveled through Europe, South/Central America and the Far East. In the late 1980’s, I returned to college, at the age of 40, to educate myself to be the artist I had dreamed of becoming.

Today, I combine a BFA degree in Studio Arts with a BA degree in Philosophy to create a new approach to art making. I teach art workshops and retreats with a contemplative, philosophical, experiential point-of-view.

During the transition from the end of the last century into the beginning of this new century, I am the person I want to be and I live a life I want to live.