I received a degree in Metallurgy from Bellevue Community College in 1974, and began my career as a welder in the Seattle Shipyards. In 1977 I became the first woman pipe welder in the Pacific Northwest. I have been playing with colors all my life, when I was four years old my mother gave me a box of three Crayola coloring crayons Red, Yellow, and Blue. She showed me how to mix them to make other colors.
I instantly took a liking to mixing colors, and started coloring on every piece of paper I could find from news papers to brown grocery sacks. In school I learned to paint with water colors, which opened a whole new world for me. With a drop of water I could make a soft light translucent color or I could use a dry brush load it with thick paint and make the most brilliant colors, I loved this control watercolors offered me. I kept wanting to make bigger paintings, matting and framing became more and more expensive, in 1993 I became an oil painter, this medium offers flexibility of size combined with color and texture. Now 20 years later I am looking forward to trying acrylics.
