My professional career was as a librarian. I retired from the Appleton (Wisconsin) Area School District in 2000. My husband and I moved from Appleton, Wi., to Austin, Texas in January 2012, after spending 4 winters in Austin and returning to an 11 inch snowstorm at the end of April!
I have enjoyed drawing and painting for most of my life. I began painting in watercolor about 25 years ago when I took a painting class in the summer at the Paine Art Center in Oshkosh, Wi. with the late Carol Mason. Until I retired, my painting was a summer hobby. After retiring, I had more time to devote to painting and it has became an integral part of my life.
I love watercolor for its experimental quality and have expanded to all kinds of water media. I enjoy painting all kinds of subject matter and abstracts. Abstracts and abstracts with collage
are my passion. After taking many workshops, I feel that I have found a direction for my work. Much of my recent painting is abstract.
Painting is a wonderful way of problem solving. When I paint, I find that I concentrate wholly on the work at hand. Like most artists, if a painting doesn’t seem to work, I try to find what I can do to make it come together.
Solo Exhibits:
2017, February, North Hills Gallery, Austin, Tx.
2015, January, Amplify Credit Union, Pond Springs Rd,
2014, April 5 Amplify Credit Union, Downtown Austin, Tx
2010 Wild Apple Gallery, Menasha, Wi (May 26-July3)
2009 Thimke Jewelers, Oshkosh (Sep thru Nov. 2009)
2009 GrassrootsASalon
2007 T Galleon
2018 Waterloo Watercolor Spring exhibit
2018 Waterloo Watercolor Fall Exhibit
2017 Waterloo Watercolor Fall Exhibit
2017 Lost Pines Art Center, Bastrop, Tx August
Acceptance to group exhibits
2019 Bass Concert Hall exhibit.
2017 Bass Concert Hall Exhibit
2017 February, Gallery at the J, Women abstract artists
2017 Waterloo Watercolor Group spring exhibit
2016 Waterloo Watercolor Group fall exhibit. Merit Award
2016 Waterloo Watercolor Group spring exhibit
2016 Bass Concert Hall exhibit
2015 Creative Art Society, Riverbend Inspiration Gallery, 2 paintings
2014 Waterloo Watercolor Group Fall Exhibit, 1 painting
2014 Creative Arts Society “Free Expressions” Doughtery Art Center, November-December, 2 paintings
2014 Creative Arts Society, “Red, White and Blue” North Hills Gallery, July, 2 paintings juried in
2014 Waterloo Watercolor Group Spring Exhibit, May11-July2 Corridor of the Arts, 700 Lavaca, Austin, Tx;
Painting: “Sunset, Cevennes Mountains, France” Watercolor. Merit Award
2014 WWG Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Tx/Bass Performing arts Center, UT Austin, Traveling exhibit. Trees of Longuedoc
2013 WWG FAll Show, 2 paintings accepted
2013 WWG Spring show, 2 paintings accepted, one merit award
2013 WWG exhibit at Bass Concert Hall, Univ of Texas
2012 Waterloo Watercolor Group Spring Exhibit
2011 Secura Fine Arts. Painting sold to Secura
2009 Sneak Preview Wild Apple Gallery, Menasha
2009 Members exhibit Appleton Art Center
2009 Art of Give Holiday show and sale, American National Bank. Painting “Chinatown” chosen as signature piece
2009 Francis Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wi. 47th Annual juried exhibit
2009 Secura Art Exhibit
2008 Secura Art Exhibit (Honorable mention)
2008 Francis Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wi, 46th Annual juried exhibit, June 6-July 13 (Jurors Award)
2008 Appleton Art Center Members juried exhibit , 2007 Secura Art Show. Honorable mention. 2007AppletonArtCenter “ZooAnimals”exhibit
2006 Secura Art Show (Painting purchased by Secura for Corporate Collection) 2006 Appleton Art Center Recycled and Reused Art exhibit
Appleton Art Center: Paintings accepted for Floral exhibit several years and various other exhibits there.
2006 Appleton Art Center “Multicultural” Exhibit
2006 Madison Steenbock Gallery “Art with Attitude” 2006-2007 Watercolor Wisconsin, Wustum Museum, Racine 2003 Secura Art Show
2003, 2004, 2005 Oshkosh 100
Other
2018 J Gallery, Collage exhibit, one of 4 artists
2017 CAS, paintings at Cypress Grill and Urban Hair
2016 Gallery at the J, one of 5 featured artists, “Creative Language of Abstraction” 2016 Georgetown Public Library, WWG exhibit
2015 Waterloo Watercolor Group Exhibit, Austin Bergstrom Airport
2015 and 2016 Exhibit at the Cypress Grill, and Amplify Bank
2014 For the love of Books, Olde Bakery and Emporium, Austin (One painting sold)
2014 Inspiration gallery, River Bend, small paintings, Summer 2013 “For the love of books” Georgetown, Tx. Public Library 2012 WWG exhibit Riverbend
2010 Bead Garden, Appleton, Art Walk featured artist, July 2010 OFAA St. Johns ELCA Church, Oshkosh
2005, 2006 “Colors of Life” Art exhibit and auction, Community Hospice Foundation 2005 UW Fond du lac Extension Scholarship Fund raiser
2004 Appleton Public Library “Librarians as Artists”
1998 Joye Moon Eluthera trip exhibit, Oshkosh
Awards
2018 Waterloo Watercolor Spring exhibit Merit Award
2017 Waterloo Watercolor Group Fall Exhibit, Merit award for Aerial view
2016 Waterloo Watercolor Group Fall Exhibit, Merit Award for Canyonlands.
2015 Waterloo Watercolor Group Fall Exhibit, Merit award for “Under the sea”
2014 Waterloo Watercolor Group Spring Exhibit, Merit award for “Sunset, Cevennes Mountains, France”
2013 Waterloo Watercolor Group Spring Exhibit, Merit Award for “Floral” 2011 Orene Raby Memorial Award 2009, Winnebagoland Art Fair
2011 Appleton Rotary Grant
2009 Appleton Rotary Grant
2009 Recipient of the Orene Raby Memorial Award, Winnebagoland Art Fair, Oshkosh, Wi 2008 Juror’s Award, Hardy Gallery Annual Exhibit
2008 Honorable mention, Secura Art Exhibit
2007 Honorable Mention, Secura Art Exhbit, 2007
2007 Second Place watercolor: Winnebagoland Art Fair
Bernard Peterson Memorial Award presented for outstanding art to a member of the Oshkosh Fine Arts Association at the Winnebagoland Art Fair, both in 2001 and 2005
2006 Gloria Link Memorial Award Winnebagoland Art Fair 2005 First place watercolor, Winnebagoland Art Fair Third place watercolor, Winnebagoland Art Fair, 2003
Art Associations
Oshkosh Fine Arts Association Waterloo Watercolor Group (Austin, Tx.) Creative Art Society, Austin, Tx.
Art Education
I am a self taught artist, although I have taken several art classes including woodcut and drawing at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
I have taken many workshops with local and nationally known painters including Joye Moon, Bridget Austin, Lee Mothes, Phil Seely, Marie Seigrist, Cheng Khee Chee, Karen Knutson, Tony Van Hasselt, Stephen Quiller, Betty Proper, Win Jones, Pat Dewes, Joe Bohler, Julie Twomey, Kathleen Conover, Kris Parins, John Salminen, Karlyn Holman, Nicholas Simmons, Judi Betts, Frank Eber, Betty Jameson, Rae Andrews, Gerald Brommer, Thomas Schaller, Birgit O’Connor, Mark Mahaffey, Mary Ann Beckwith, Lian Quan Zhen
CLASSES TAUGHT
Mini workshop, turning old paintings into note cards Mini workshop, abstracts on Yupo
ART DEMONSTRATIONS
YUPO demo, Rural Rembrants