I was born in 1950 in NYC where I began drawing, sitting with my mother in the sunlit kitchen, when I was a tiny child. The first art classes I took were at the Brooklyn Museum of Art around 1959. In 1963 I was accepted into the High School of Music and Art. After leaving home I moved to San Francisco where I went to the San Franciso Art Institute, majoring in Painting and a minor in Drawing and spent my last year there in the Honors Program.  During 1993-94  I went back to school to study Photography at Arizona State University.

I have always maintained a studio in my home.  Over the years I have shown with some of the San Francisco Visionaries as well as becoming known in the South of Market art scene in the late 1970s. 

I now live in very rural Arizona and spend my time working with rescued animals, writing and am currently working on the HerChurch Mural.

The work shared within this website covers a small segment of over 40 years of work.

In addition to creating visual art have always been a writer. Many of the major works have poetry as part of the "studies" done before hand. Currently I am working on a book called "MEN" which is a memoir told through the experiences I had with the men in my life, from my father to my husband, Jeff.

Animals have always been a huge part of my life. For the past twenty plus years I have been involved in the Animal Sanctuary movement as well as being active in Animal Welfare and Rights. In 1994 I founded The Oasis Sanctuary, a parrot sanctuary. Currently my husband and I have started and run an animal rescue predominantly for senior, handicapped and special needs dogs rescue. Please visit www.cochisecaninerescue.org