My lifelong love of art began during frequent childhood visits, to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Drawing and painting have been a part of my life from an early age and have always been one on my greatest joys. Painting provides a way for me to enter another world and to be completely in the moment. I studied art and art history in college and have continued to study throughout my life. I always carry a sketchbook with me and enjoy doing fast gesture sketches of people engaged in everyday life. Many of these sketches have become the basis for later narrative paintings. I am mostly drawn to line and color and what pleases my eye. My work has been in juried group shows and solo shows in Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. I have won awards for works in oil and watercolor.