I have been a San Francisco Bay Area artist and portrait photographer for most of my life.  My work celebrates the human condition with all its foibles, delights, and ironies. My whimsical images are narrative collages, revealing our idiosyncrasies and attachments. I draw on my own past experiences for inspiration, choosing animals as characters, since their charm and humor abound. The images evolve from my imagination as I work. Rarely do I know what will unfold from the seed of an idea.

I weave together material from a variety of sources to digitally compose the images. Creating them has been a great source of joy for me which I hope to pass along by engaging and delighting all viewers.

In creating the images I draw from the following sources: my own photographic archives, Rijkstudio, Canstock, Dreamweaver, Pixel Squid and Midjourney.

I have won numerous awards and have been exhibited in the Bay Area and beyond at Toby’s Art Gallery, the Sebastapol Gallery, Studio Channel Islands, Laguna Gallery, The Chateau Gallery, and the Foto Nostrum Gallery in Barcelona.

I have a husband and two sons and live on the edge of the San Francisco Bay with gulls and cormorants as neighbors as well as coots when they winter in the area.

SQUATTERS and THE SILVER LINING, A BEASTLY BAGATELLE are my publications.

My CV can be found here.