I have been very fortunate to see so much of the world in my lifetime. I spent my childhood in Japan and California, and later moved to the state of Washington as a young adult. After my high school graduation, I moved to Juneau, Alaska, for several years where I met my husband. Later he and I both moved to Washington state where I completed my college degree and we later married. Shortly thereafter, we settled in Seattle and started a family.

My interest in art started decades ago when my children were in preschool. I enrolled in several drawing and graphic art classes at Seattle Institute of Art and Shoreline College, but my art interests and pursuits took a back seat to raising children and a busy and exciting career in the seafood business. After a hiatus of twenty years, I finally returned to art just a few short years ago; this time taking up painting classes at Seattle’s Gage Academy of Art and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. My medium and style have changed over the years from pastels to acrylics and from representational art to abstract and collage arts. 

I have always had an affinity for abstract paintings and artists. It allows for far more creativity than representational art and I find it so much more freeing than trying to “copy” or “interpret” something in the material world. Some of my favorite artists are Miro, Kandinski, Rothko, O’keefe, and Klimt.