A painter of color and light, working plein air on site, and out of a studio at the Mill Center in Baltimore MD.
Quirk Gallery, Charlottsville VA December 2022- February 2023
Swallowfield, Northeast Harbor, ME 2018- present
Bozutto Green Gallery, Greenspring Valley MD 2018 – present
Annie Gould Gallery in Gordonsville, VA 2018 – present
Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, ME 2014 – present
Bishops Stock Gallery, Snow Hill ,MD 2008- present
Beaudry Gallery, Dallas TX 2018- 2019
American Painting Gallery, DC Dec-Jan,2012
Bryn Mawr School Alumni landscape show 2010
Circle Gallery Annapolis 2010
Carroll County Arts landscape show 2011
Cornerstone Gallery, Southwest Harbor ME, 2019-
Crystal Moll Gallery group landscape show 2011, 2019
Cylburn Arboretum biannual "Celebration of Art" exhibition 2012 – present
(highest painting award in 2012, best in show 2014)Plein Air Easton, MD 2008
(winning best Maryland artist award)Gunpowder Falls, Monkton MD 2008, 2009
Gibson Island Exhibit , MD 2009, 2018
McBride Gallery, Annapolis MD 2015
Peale Center Cityscape, Baltimore, MD 2015
Paint Snow Hill, MD 2008 – present
Long Beach Island Plein Air Exhibition 2016, NJ
(People's Choice Award, 2017 Second Place Award)
Valley Planning Council Exhibits , Greenspring Valley, MD 2005 – present
(received award in 2015 and 2017)Water/Ways – a traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution – present
A featured artist in the 2015 book 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic by Gary Pendleton
Le Poissons Gallery write up
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts 1976-1977
AIX en PROVENCE Painting Program
Maryland Institute BFA 1980
My life long interest in painting began in early childhood attending the Bryn Mawr School, where creativity was encouraged. I attended Hobart William Smith Colleges for one year but decided to commit to an art college rather than a liberal arts program and transferred to the Boston Museum School for two years. While there, my family moved to Brussels, Belgium for three years. During my summer visits, I had the benefit of traveling throughout Europe and seeing many museum collections first hand. I also benefited from a number of European painting programs. I then transferred to the Maryland Institute and graduated in 1980. I had a few jobs related to the arts including a gallery position, settled down and married an art dealer who is a works on paper dealer, and had two children.
I always painted plein air when our children were growing up, especially enjoying Maine and the Maryland countryside. I now am a full-time painter and maintain a studio in The Mill Centre, Baltimore but mostly prefer to paint on location. I love to paint on Monhegan Island, Mount Desert Island, New Mexico and Maryland. I am influenced by the artists Arthur Wesley Dow, Fairfield Porter, Wayne Thiebaud, Neil Welliver, Edouard Vulliard and Henri Matisse. I am most attracted to places in nature where light is creating abstract shapes, and color is creating a mood. Capturing fleeting light is always a challenge, and a thrill when occasionally it works in a painting!When painting, or even seeing that spot that pulled my attention, I am drawn to unexpected movements of light and beauty.
