My interest in art began as far back as I can remember, spending hours watching my mother paint in her studio. It was a natural part of my day to head for school in the morning and to return in the afternoon to see something new and exciting having emerged on what had been a white canvas only that morning.
After a degree in Design at George Washington University, my professional journey in art began with watercolor and in later years continued in oil. My interest in landscape painting is a natural evolution of my love of the water, which began from my childhood spent on Michigan lakes in and around boats, summers with my husband and children on the Severn River in Annapolis, and family holidays on Lake Champlain in Vermont. In recent years those memories have resurfaced while living on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
My love of painting and the outdoors naturally led me to paint “En Plein Air” across the United States, Canada and France. The sense of light and atmosphere draw me to all subject matter, whether it is a flower in a garden or a figure in the landscape. The impact of light is so varied and changing, one can find sources of inspiration for a lifetime.
* On Becoming a Painter by Robert A. Johnson
Group Exhibitions
December, 2009, Peninsula
Gallery, Small Jewels, Lewes,
Delaware
March, 2009, Peninsula
Gallery, New Member Show, Lewes,
Delaware
November, 2007, Working
Artist Forum, Academy Art Museum, Easton,
Maryland
March, 2005, Plein Air Painter’s of the Eastern Shore,
Coffee East, Easton, Maryland
April, 2001, Junior League of Washington
Headquarters, Georgetown, Washington DC
May
2000-2003, 2007-2008, Oxford Invitational Arts Fair, Oxford Maryland
March
2000, Spectrum Gallery, Georgetown,
Washington,
DC
April 1999,The Artist’s Museum, Washington DC
May 1998-Gallery B.A.I., New York,
New York (Soho)
Selected Juried Exhibitions and Awards:
July, 2010, Plein-Aire Easton,
Easton, Maryland
September, 2008, Paint Annapolis,
Plein Air Competition, Annapolis, Maryland
June, 2008, St. Michaels Art
League Show, St. Michaels, Maryland
2nd
Prize, Oil Landscape
November, 2007, Kent Island
Art Association, Kent Island, Maryland
1st
Prize, Oil Landscape
Best in Show
April, 2007,2008,Wayne Art Center Plein Air Competition, Wayne, Pennsylvania
September, 2007, Maryland Federation of Art, American
Landscape Show, Annapolis, Md.
Juror:
George Gurney, Deputy
Curator American
Art MusEUM
September,
2006, 2007, Gilcrease Museum, American Art in Miniature
April, 2005, 2006, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgeley, Maryland
July, 2005-2006, Annual Maritime Art Exhibit, Coos Art
Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
July, 2005,2006, Plein Air-Easton, The Academy Art
Museum, Easton,
Maryland
September, 2005, Alder Gallery LaPetite XIII, Alder
Gallery, Coburg, Oregon
May 7, 2004,Save the Bay Benefit Show for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Gallery on Merchants Square, Williamsburg,
Virginia
April, 2000, Southern
Watercolor Society, 23rd Annual Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Juror:
Ernest J. Velardi, Professor Emeritus, California State University.
November 1999, Small Works
Membership Show
Juror:
Connie Woolard
2nd
prize and Honorable Mention
October
1999, All Media Membership Show, Art League, Torpedo Factory
Juror:
Jack Perlmutter, Professor Emeritus of Fine Art, Corcoran
Gallery, Washington, DC
January
1999, All Media Membership Show, Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Va
Juror: Carlton Fletcher, Washington Studio
School Faculty, Washington, DC
November,1998, The Miniature Show, Art League, Torpedo
Factory, Alexandria, Va
August, 1998, American Landscape Show, Art League,
Torpedo Factory, Alexandria,
Va
Juror:
Elizabeth Rathbone, Chief Curator, The Phillips Gallery
