This area is so beautiful that it attracts many artists to live and work here.  I am continually surprised

and impressed by the quality and quantity of art produced locally. 

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While I was born in Rochester (many years ago) I spent summers on a farm in Bristol. Later, my family moved to Hemlock and I went to school in Livonia. After high school I attended collage in Buffalo and took drawing and perspective classes at the Albright Knox Art Gallery. After getting married and having children, I started a home based candle business. I designed brochures and catalogs for the wholesale part of the business and did displays in the retail shop along with coming up with a few new coloring techniques for candles.

After retirement, I started to paint with watercolors, experimented with acrylics, and then with oils.  I now paint almost exclusively with oils: sometimes I use brushes, sometimes painting knives and often with a combination of brushes and painting knives.

Many of my paintings are scenes of the Finger Lakes area. I’ve done lots of barns because I love the character of them.  I’d really love to hear the stories they could tell if they could talk.  I do paint other subjects though.  Animals, flowers and yes, people. I  take on commissions occasionally, though most of my paintings are of subjects, scenes that just appeal to me.

My work may be seen at:

All Things Art, Canandaigua, New York

Artizann’s in Naples , New York

The Frame Shop and Gallery, Canandaigua, New York

Mackerel Sky Book Store, Honeoye, New York

Current memberships include: Lake Side Artists Guild, Livingston Art Group, Naples Artists Network, Ontario County Arts Council. 

I am a past member of the Henrietta Art Club and the Penfield Art Association (served as President for 2003-2004

One of my paintings was chosen to be on the cover of an anthology of the Finger Lakes region entitled “Knocking on the Silence”. 

Darryl Abraham, Kathleen Armitage, David Barnet, Ben Bennett (Blue Heron Glassworks), Kurt & Lynda Carlson (Carlson Glassworks),  Becky Congdon, John Dodd Studio,  Bob Fladd,  Paul & Suzanne Frazer (Frazer Studios), Geroux Studios, Brent Gillette,  Albie Alliet (Grape Moments Studio),   Pat Halpen (Sky Path Design), Dottie Harrison,   Charlie Kingsley, Jeannette Klute, Jo Krajci (Me & My Shadows),  Stephanie Marshall,  Anne Schliffer,  Mark Stash,  Kala Stein,   Adam & Sarah Spector,  Carole Battle (The Studio at Falling Waters), 

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