06/09/2026
🎉 To celebrate 4000 followers (yay!!), I thought I’d reintroduce myself and share a new portrait. If you know me, you know I’d way rather be behind the camera than in front, so it’s with some hesitation that I share this photo!
But what I do love is connecting with you, people who love art, create art, and want more beauty and peace in the world ✨
Here’s a little about me, so you know who’s behind the paintings:
🌲I grew up in the Catskills, NY on a small mountain farm with my sisters. After moving between several big cities, I’m lucky to live in Marin County, CA just north of San Francisco, with my husband, our amazing boys, our large, sweet dog, and our feisty cat.
⛰️I love to paint mountains. There’s something magical about them. They feel like home, like a mother, like a reminder about how the earth shifts and changes over time.
🎨 I didn’t go to art school. I took lots of art classes over the years, but science was my focus. I studied Biology at Ithaca College and got my Master of Arts in teaching biology at Johns Hopkins.
🖌️Before becoming a full time artist, I poured my creativity into my roles at the Rainforest Alliance, National Geographic School Publishing, as a teacher, as Editor-in-Chief of a local magazine, and of course as a mom.
🔬 I’m always exploring ways to bring science and art together and feel strongly that art is a way to communicate and educate about science in a truly meaningful and accessible way.
✨ I’m in a perpetual state of wonder about nature, our earth, this universe, and I think art can be a way to connect us to it all and help us understand ourselves in it.
🪶 Other stuff: My pockets are often filled with rocks, finding feathers is a magical gift, hunting for vintage and antique treasures is thrilling, and there’s nothing better than a group of women putting their heads and hearts together! 🩷
🙏 Thank you for supporting women and the arts!
📷 Thank you for the new portrait, !
