I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but now call the glorious Pacific Northwest my home, with my sweet and supportive husband and two sons. (I cannot keep a pet and don’t try anymore out of kindness to the animal kingdom.)

I started painting, reluctantly, as a child. My mother would bring art supplies on family hikes and urge us to create something. Sadly, this did not spark a love of art until adulthood, when I took my son’s watercolor paints out to my little garden and started painting the flowers popping up there. I took to painting during my children’s’ naps and any other time I could spare, and I have not been able to stop. Not that I have tried.