About the Artist

"En Plein Air" is an honest approach to painting.  It's pure dialogue between the artist and subject.  The Rocky Mountain Front where I was born, raised and returned to embraces the essence of this philosophy.  I seek to continue this dialogue and expand its scope.

It is the inspiration of Carl Rungius, Edgar Payne, J.E.H. MacDonald and the Canadian Seven and Emil Gruppe' that has guided me on this path along with all artists who share the Plein Air pureness of style.  Oil on canvas has allowed me to express my relationship to land and people.  A group of fishermen in Italy waited for me to finish a painting before they would unload their boat and a woman in China held my umbrella so I could paint, but it is the West I truly love to capture on canvas.

This dialogue has allowed invitations to the C.M. Russell Auction for the past 20+ years and signature membership with the Plein Air Painters of America.  Highlights in a career beginning in the 60's include Grand Prize for the National Arts for the Parks; inclusion within the Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West and invitation to the Maynard Dixon Show.