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About the Artist |
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was born in Vancouver, Washington, but we lived in Portland, Oregon. Mom liked
the hospital and doctor there, and maybe because she was born in Washington, she wanted my sister and I to be born in Washington. I was a service brat, and my father was in Germany when I came into this world. I was conceived on Christmas 1945, the end of World War II. By the time I was a year old, I had lived in Oregon, New York & Wiesbaden, Germany. A friend of my mothers noticed how
much I loved to paint so she sent me to a class at the Portland Art Museum. That
was back when the school was in the basement, and it was like a warm den and smelled wonderful…like oil paint and clay. I had come home. My teacher was Dorothy
Yezerski, who up until the last few years showed at the Rental Sales Gallery. During
that course, Lloyd Reynolds came in and taught us calligraphy. I continued with
calligraphy whenever I could get a lesson in it. And of course, continued painting. My mother bought me a set of oils, and I was off.
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When
I was 19, I took another course at Portland Art Museum: Advanced Calligraphy
from Lloyd J. Reynolds. What a wonderful opportunity. He also taught at Reed.
I started showing at galleries during the 70’s and 80’s. I also got into airbrushing. A friend wanted me to paint his van for a show, so I learned how to do that by painting friends’
junkers. And, in recent years have been asked to paint antique bi-planes. The nose art. I’ve just finished
my fourth. The best part of that is flying in them. In 1982 I was working
at Marylhurst College and one of the benefits of working there is you can take all the classes you want, if you can fit it
into your work schedule. They had one course I was very interested in, because
it was being put on by one of my art heroes, Scott McIntyre. He did beautiful
things with colored pencil. I was able to take his class and started combining
colored pencil with watercolors.
In 1984 I took full courses at Sylvania Community College. I took an advanced
watercolor class and was told that for what I do, they couldn’t teach me anything.
I was so entrenched in doing it the way I had pretty-much taught myself. Of
course I have read things, and picked up different methods from here and there. |
I started showing at Portland Art Museum about 13 years ago, I think. I have
shown at Lawrence Gallery at Salishan, Ryans Gallery in Lincoln City, art fairs in Oregon and California, Emerald City Gallery
in Seattle, and all the paintings in Roseanna’s Café in Oceanside, Oregon are mine.
The Symms of Idaho, Ste. Chappelle Winery, have some of my paintings in their collection.
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