I have painted for 25 years, and am primarily self-taught, though I've taken classes at the Art Students League of New York, the Gage Academy in Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and studied privately for five years with professional artists in Eastern Europe.  I am represented by Cambium Gallery in Astoria, Oregon and run my own studio gallery with artist Pippa Arend, The Residency, in Portland, Oregon's downtown Pearl District.  My art is in public and private collections worldwide.   Like this picture shows, you will often find me with a paint brush in one hand and a cup of tea in the other!

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I run an art school called The Roaming Studio, and was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant to publish my  first book,  The Roaming Studio Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces, released in early 2016.   For ten years, I served as a volunteer board member - eventually as president - of Portland Open Studios, a non-profit supporting professional artists, in Portland Oregon and I am currently treasurer of the newly founded Olive Rush Memorial Studio, which will turn my great-great Aunt artist Olive Rush’s house in Santa Fe, NM, into a public museum dedicated to supporting women and indigenous artists.