When I was a little girl my mother had an art studio on the bottom floor of our home. If I wasn't in school, I was in the studio with her. She taught me to draw and oil paint at a very young age. I loved this room so much I begged to sleep in it at night. Eventually, with much pleading and promises to be good with my chores - she gave in. The studio became my bedroom. And, until the time I got married, my bedroom has always been my studio. I sometimes miss that.

I began my formal training at age 12 at Studio Workshops in Las Vegas. Where they taught me the essentials for fine arts and oil painting. I took as many art classes in high school as I could handle. Out of high school I went onto Southwestern College in California. I studied computer graphic design as well as telemedia for film and video. Alas, after college, I spilled out into the graphic arts work force. I paid my dues as an illustrator for t-shirts, paste-up artist, layout artist and eventually landed a position with American Film Technologies in San Diego, California as a production cartoonist. As that work eventually moved it's way to Mexico - I migrated to Seattle, where I found my way back into illustration. Eventually I was hired on by TrademarkGS as a graphic artist. I've been with them ever since. Over the past 10 years this company has grown into a Design Firm and I am now the Design Manager. I love the staff I work with. They are all very talented and wonderful to be around. And as a matter of fact - a large portion of my portrait illustrations depict the employees of TrademarkGS.