In 2019 I found my new creative focus as an abstract photographer who quickly morphed into an abstract painter.  During a year of fear, stress and uncertainty due to COVID, I found myself  even more grateful for my morning walks on the shores around my Oceanside home.  It was during one of these walks that I looked down to discover that the sand that I had been walking on for years suddenly looked different. I was inspired by the abstract movements of the sand. I captured these with my phone before moving on to my camera.  From this I created a series called SANDS OF OCEANSIDE. 

Based on these photographs I decided to create a group of large paintings.  Using my sand photographs as a source of inspiration to painting on 8x10 inch canvas paper. Subsequently I moved on to larger scaled stretched canvas. My paintings are always inspired by my innate curiosity about life and the movement of things; be that people, thoughts, years, nature, light, the ocean. Everything has movement and that is what gives me comfort, the knowledge that nothing is permanent. With movement comes change.   

My photographs have shown at online digital gallery Light, Space & Time as well as the Praxis Gallery & Photographic Art Center. My painting "Ukrainian Skies" was featured in International Art Exhibition War or Peace, Washington D.C. . In July and August of 2023 I had a solo showing of my paintings at the O'Side Bakery in Oceanside, CA. My paintings have also shown at the Jones Gallery in Kansas City and have been purchased in private collections across the country. 

My photographs are not manipulated in any way.  

You get exactly what I see.