By the time I was forty, I had lived in seven states. That's not including moves within states and out of the country. With my husband, I had the privilege of birthing and raising three children, and now have two grandchildren.
I've enjoyed making images as long as I can remember. In the early sixties I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with Jack Jefferson, Richard Diebenkorn, Gordon Cook, Bruce McGaw, among others. I've maintained a studio and had solo, group and juried shows in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since.
I have been active in many aspects of making and sharing art: helped found a cooperative gallery in Alameda, Calif.; worked seven months on Judy Chicago's Dinner Party with colleagues from all over the U.S. and abroad; curated shows; worked through art to raise the consciousness of communities about the conversion of military installations to peaceful use; taught drawing and painting in my studio.
Recently I have been making, showing and teaching art in southern India (and I will continue to do so). I find the environment expanding with many opportunities to explore visual space in different ways, in different mediums.