About
My experience as an artist started with my childhood, spending time making things in our Cleveland kitchen with my mother, a dynamic and talented woman who painted, wrote for the local newspaper and entered art shows, among other things. Our walls held paintings by local artists.
I often looked through the old sketchbooks on our coffee table filled with fine pencil drawings from the 1800s by my Norwegian great grandmother. I absorbed these influences and further deepened my love of art in excellent art classes both in high school and in college.
My connection with art continued when I studied art in Washington, D.C. As a graduate student in painting at American University, I was influenced by the emphasis on drawing from life and from exposure to art history. Some of my favorite artists include Cezanne, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Matisse, O’Keeffe, Marin, and Hopper.
I began teaching art after graduate school and continue to teach at art centers in the Atlanta area. I’m interested in many questions that art proposes. How does something become art? What does it mean to be an artist? Thinking about these issues has informed my art practice and my teaching philosophy through the desire to delve more deeply into the why of art.
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2026
Georgia Lawyers Association Gala, Atlanta, Georgia
Quinlan Art Center Gala, Gainesville, Georgia
Georgia Watercolor Society, national exhibit, Carrollton, Georgia
Decatur Library, Decatur Arts Alliance Invitational “Homeland”, Decatur, Georgia
Pulgram Gallery Member Exhibit, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta
Georgia Watercolor Society, state exhibit, Watkinsville, Georgia
2025
Instructor and Student Invitational, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta
Georgia Lawyers Association Gala, Atlanta
Quinlan Art Center Gala, Gainesville
2024
Virginia Highlands Books, Atlanta
Spotlight on Art, Trinity School, Atlanta
Group Show, Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville
Georgia Watercolor Society, member exhibit, Greensboro, Georgia
2023
One-person show, Madison Artist Guild, Madison, Georgia
Georgia Watercolor Society, member exhibit , Thomasville, Georgia
2022
Pulgram Gallery Abstract Art Show, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta
2021
Small Works Show, Atlanta Artist Center
Spotlight on Art, Trinity School
Spruill Center for the Arts Student and Faculty Juried Exhibit, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta
Back to the Drawing Board, Atlanta Artists Center
East Meets West, Atlanta Artist Center
2020
Synchronicity (1st place award), Atlanta Artist Center
2019
Back to the Drawing Board (2nd place award), Atlanta Artists Center
Grandview at W Hotel, Atlanta
