This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, she used the theme as nature as retreat to create a series of western landscape paintings that brought her national attention.
She developed a love of landscape from family weekends at her family cabin on a lake. She studied graphics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and then moved to California where she studied still life painting with Joyce Pike and figure painting with Robert E. Wood. She credits Millard Sheets as the greatest influence on her work, causing her to look in a different way at landscapes. In 1985, he awarded her a first prize in an art exhibit and supported her for one-woman shows.
In 1987, she moved from California to Palisade, Colorado, where a favorite subject for her is The Grand Mesa, with over 300 lakes and reservoirs and much forested land. In 1992, she began a Grand Mesa series of 300 oil paintings, breathtaking vistas that make her feel at peace with herself. |
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