"I have always lived near the coast. Painting en plein air near my Virginia home on the Chesapeake Bay, or where I grew up in New Jersey, or vacationed with family in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and Florida ~ dreams and memories of these fuse together in every painting I create. I recall sailing on the lake, and on the Bay as a girl. Learning to go with the flow, to take life's challenges one at a time ~ is something I treasure and infuse into every painting."