I've been making art, one way or another, all my life;  sold my first piece for a nickel when I was about seven. 

For the past decade or so, landscape painting has been my main artistic focus.  I paint outdoors, on location, usually early in the morning.  The day is young and my eyes are fresh;  the light is low and new, the air is lovely,  and my brain hasn't yet had time to fill up with words. Painting local spots that interest/move me is deeply satisfying and I am grateful that I have this way of being in the world and responding to it. 

I paint with oils on gessoed hardboard panels.  My day job ( my husband and I are self-employed furniture conservators) provides me with the wherewithal to do my own framing, so I can indulge my liking for peculiar sizes and proportions.