Born in San Francisco in 1945 and followed by two little sisters into the heart of suburbia for the duration.

To UC Santa Barbara, BA Spanish Lit, ‘67. Upon graduation, I moved to Spain. My first job, in Madrid, translating aeronautics correspondence, was the beginning of a secretarial career that spanned three continents and took a decade to shake off.

During which time: I married twice, divorced twice, had a daughter then a son, earned an MA Education, Harvard ’75, and began a teaching career in Brazil then Colombia.

Followed by a three-year stint in Silicon Valley, as a technical writer travelling between army posts throughout the country. I moved to Alaska in 1980. painted souvenirs. In 1982 I moved to Colorado where I did pastel portraiture and sidewalk caricature (as well as my all-day every day job teaching English at a wilderness boarding high school.)

In 1987 I moved back to the west coast to pursue my true vocation: ART. During this time I became skilled in acrylic paint, and was consistently employed in the gamut of commissioned work, from portraiture to landscape, photo-realism to caricature and murals.

In 1994 I moved to a shadowy isolated redwood canyon, where the computer discovered me, and began a passion for digital photography and computer graphics.
 

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