Her dream was to be an artist. By the time she entered Scripps College, she had lived in Mexico, the Caribbean, and on a ranch outside of Tucson, AZ.

After graduating from Scripps College in l96l she went to New York to pursue her career as an artist. she stayed there for l3 years, painting, learning printmaking skills at the Printmaking Workshop, and eventually becoming an edition printer.

In l974, as a single parent, she moved to Massachusetts and a few years later to a tiny cabin in the woods of New Hampshire, where she worked, gardened, and raised her children. Being surrounded by an intensely beautiful natural environment she began focusing on landscape for the first time. A road trip across Canada and the northern United States in l983 further inspired landscape prints and paintings.

In l986, with her youngest child in college, she moved to New Orleans where she immersed herself in the art and jazz culture, establishing herself as a solid professional working artist. During her years there, she started working more and more with clay, always a part of her life. She produced many figurative sculptures in addition to various series of colorful monoprints. In l990 she began casting glass and has been producing glass sculptures ever since.

In l998 she returned to her beloved California, this time to the north coast to the tiny town of Tomales where she welcomes visitors to her studio by appointment.