Nothing in a midwestern childhood and young adulthood prepared me for the images which would become part of my Oregon vocabulary. The ocean, the mountains, the bullet holes in stop signs. A giant river running through arid cliffs tufted with sagebrush. The far west.
In the 53 years since June 24, 1970, when we arrived from Chicago, I have been a librarian, a restaurant owner, a mother and a grandmother, co-authored a successful nomination for a National Register historic district. I know how to garden, to bind slides, to research, to make bread and small handmade books. I’ve taught classes. I’m a painter, I’m a quilter.
Since 1976 I have shown drawings, paintings and quilts in a variety of venues across the state. My work is included in many collections regionally, nationally and in Europe.
Since 2018 I have had 3 solo shows: at the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, and at the A.N. Bush Gallery at the Salem Art Association.
First Museum (age 9): the Chicago art Institute. College: Michigan State University. Preferred mediums: drawing, painting, collage, quilting, writing. Mentors: Robert Hess, Roger Hull, George Johanson, Sally Leboeuf, Nancy Lindburg, Kathleen Dinges Rice.
I was born in 1944.
