I grew up in Carmel, California. It is a beach town, but not the hot kind with boardwalks and innnertubes. Carmel is the cold, crisp kind of beach town with a deep blue abyss and green-black cypress trees. The sand is white and squeaks when you walk on it, and you can hear sea lions and seals and crows. 

As kids, my little sisters and I shared The Craft Box, which was a wooden Jeroboam case from my Dad's winery. It probably contained the whole line of Crayola products. We had an unlimited supply of leftover computer paper from an obsolete winery printer. Other favorite media from that time were Play-Doh, Fimo, Puff Paint, and at special times, my Grandma's acrylic paints on tiny canvasses. I liked stapling together my own illustrated stories, and spent a lot of time trying to copy Disney characters perfectly. The Head of Bambi was almost impossible!

Craft time at school was, of course, my favorite time. In high school I found that I didn't want to leave Ms. Chic's Art Room, with its still lives and closet full of unlimited art supplies, including the exotic Gouache. I was accepted to Rhode Island School of Design. Off to Providence!

After approximately a zillion figure drawings and studies in oil, a study abroad program in Rome, stints in San Francisco and New York City, I have my own little studio near Princeton. Around here you can see fireflies, rabbits, deer and woodchucks all at once!