Watercolor
medium enhances my portrayal of spontaneous fantasies. My images are characterized by a combination
of detail and whimsy. At the age of 11, I was tutored in my home by a Cowboy
Artist, in the basic use of watercolors.
I was to continue my love for painting again only after retirement - due
to a hand injury - from a nursing career.
After having completed a painting a year for several years and using
painting as therapy to begin to reuse my hand, I decided to devote myself to
painting full time and subsequently built a studio in my garden. I enjoy painting the flowers from my garden,
along with whimsical renditions of people’s homes, and still life images.
A
friend once told me that I “see life in the form of cartoons”. I am delightedly involved in the endeavor to
paint what I see and experience emotionally, portraying life’s cartoons.
My
work has been influenced by artist/teachers Sam Colburn, Nina Parris, Mary
Ellen Okelberry, Lian Zhen,
Gary Quinones and Darien Payne.
I
am currently a member of the Central Coast Artists Association, the Monterey
Peninsula Art Foundation, and the
Noelle
Nichols