I have always been drawn to painting ~ to express what is beautiful and matters most to me. 

My formal education was English and French; my ongoing education is travel. I travel to taste and see and deepen my own understanding of my place in this world. I want to know all I can of the history of artistic traditions, where they come from, how they are practiced today. I carry my artistic fancies with me and an open attitude. Why is breakfast more fun in a foreign country?

I have always been a painter, but I joyfully discovered watercolor in France, under the tutelage of John Barber, alumnus of London’s Central Saint Martins. Mr. Barber shared the pleasures of watercolor with French wine, wry humor and advice ~ keep it loose, use the time you have, try to make it look effortless, keep trying new things. 

I keep his lessons close when expressing my own romantic sensibilities in original paintings, fine art prints and stationary.