My Background
When my junior college art teacher asked what I thought I would do after completing my associate’s degree, I wasn’t sure. I knew that I wanted to continue my education, and in the instant she suggested an independent study program in Paris I had decided. What better way to explore my love of languages, art and travel at the same time! I s
When my junior college art teacher asked what I thought I would do after completing my associate’s degree, I wasn’t sure. I knew that I wanted to continue my education, and in the instant she suggested an independent study program in Paris I had decided. What better way to explore my love of languages, art and travel at the same time! I spent my junior year in the city of lights, studying painting with Kathleen Scarboro Kugel and auditing (crashing) drawing classes at L’ecole des Beaux Arts when I wasn’t wandering the art museums. Upon returning to the states I felt a need to be practical and abandoned my major in painting and earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. After a short stint at a marketing firm I fell into decorative painting which married my illustration degree with my painting skills, and I have been happily painting murals and commissioned canvases in the Chicagoland area and across the country since 1993.