During my travels, I feel drawn to flowers for their vibrant colors, tones and fantastic textures. Going through my photos I realized I took more pictures of flowers than people. Only my museum shots outnumbered them. I have even stopped the car so I could go out and take pictures of some vivid colors that caught my eye along the roadside.

  

I wanted to tell a story about artists and how we worked and thought and planned before we picked up a brush.  My paintings start with one of my photos and devolve into a small painting and then into an abstraction of that painting. They are happy paintings that come out of a difficult time in my life and also in our country's life. I believe that you have to look at the brighter side of things and art will take you there

 

My background in art is strange. I was told as a third-grader that I could not draw and I took music lessons and I never had an art class.  After taking a drawing-one class in a local college at the ripe old age of 52  and then transferring to U Conn where I graduated with a BFA  Summa Cum Laude at age 58 and then on to my MFA at Vermont College at 60 years.  After school, I reached out to Norwich Arts Gallery and have been a member since then.