I grew up in Maryland and Washington, DC. My parents were ex New Yorkers. We were a low income, high creativity family. My Mother was a successful short fiction writer at a time when women were encouraged to be housewives. My Father was a journalist whose  politics during the McCarthy Era influenced his professional life and our family life. I got scholarships to Pratt Institute and moved to Brooklyn. In 1987, I made the journey West to New Mexico because of the natural beauty and open space. I've lived longer in New Mexico than any where else.

I've experienced times when I was strongly focused on exhibiting and selling and times when creating was primary and the marketing part of the process was less significant.  I've exhibited my work nationally and in Santa Fe. 

In December 2022, my work was exhibited in a one woman exhibition at The Strata Gallery in Santa Fe. 

The work in the Yeat's portfolio was exhibited at the Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Center in 2022.  His prophetic poem The Second Coming inspired this work.  In late 2021 my book Petals in the Tunnel was published.  This book is a collection of both paintings and poetry. 

 Opening Reception at Strata Gallery Petals in the Tunnel February 2022 Exhibit Paintings and Poetry at Santa Fe Visual Arts Center, SFCC  

I love living in Santa Fe. I live with my husband, poet, Donald Levering, and have a beautiful studio where I earn my living by painting and teaching art. My poetry is published in literary journals and my office where I write my poems is on the other side of the studio door. I cross a ceramic tile threshold and move from images in words to worlds of images. I am very interested in dreams, the imagination and the collective unconscious.

I balance this immersion in the inner depths by spending time painting outside. I love plein air painting. It is focused and joyful to be making art outside in nature. I moved to New Mexico so many years ago, because I loved the spaciousness of the landscape. I still do. 

I also teach art both in the studio and outdoors and find this very satisfying. Below (on the right) is a picture of students in a plein airOutdoor Class in Santa Fe  pastel class and at the bottom, one of my favorite places to paint outdoors, Ghost Ranch, in Abiquiu, New Mexico The Painted Desert at Ghost Ranch