I am an impressionistic watercolor and oil painter who lives part of the year in Sargentville, Maine, and the rest of the year in East Haddam, Connecticut.

I left my career as a lawyer to focus on painting after recovering from breast cancer and losing both of my parents. I started my painting journey in watercolor, studying first in a weekly class with a Connecticut watercolorist and eventually in a six-month intensive virtual atelier course with Colorado watercolorist Dan Marshall. I also studied oil painting in workshops with Australian oil painter Colley Whisson, Rockport, MA artist Stapleton Kearns and California artist Tim Horn.

In each image I paint, I aspire to be a painter of light, focusing on how the sunlight plays across the side of a building, how it sparkles on the water and how shadows stretch across a landscape, giving viewers the impression and atmosphere of a place, not a photorealistic rendering of that place.

I love painting en plein air in challenging conditions of changing light, moisture, wind, heat and cold that make me a better, looser painter. I regularly participate in plein air painting competitions. In 2026, I was juried into the North Carolina Plein Air Art Festival in New Bern, which will take place in May 2026. In 2025, I was juried into the 9th Annual Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival, which took place in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2024, I won the best of Newburgh prize in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Painting Festival in New York state.

In 2025, my work was juried into the New England Watercolor Society’s 2025 New England Regional Juried Exhibition in Watertown, MA, and three exhibits at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT, winning the Matilda Brown Memorial Award in the Ship to Shore Exhibition.

In 2024 and 2025, I was the November Artist in Residence at the Deer Isle Artists Association in Deer Isle, Maine, where I held a solo exhibition and artist talk.

Honors

Dec. 2025 “An Afternoon on the Alamar” and “At Rest” were selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the December 2025 BoldBrush Painting competition
Nov. 2025 “At Rest” won the Honorable Mention – Enthusiast Class by Thomas W. Schaller and selected for the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the November 2025 BoldBrush Competition
Aug. 2025 “Earth Song” selected for the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the August 2025 BoldBrush Competition
Apr. 2025 “Winter on the Reach” received the Matilda Brown Memorial Award, Ship to Shore exhibition, Lyme Art Association
Oct. 2024 Newburgh Prize, Newburgh Historic District, Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival
Oct. 2024 Honorable Mention, Manza Farm, Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival
Sept. 2024 Honorable Mention, Amateur Category of Ogunquit Perkins Cove Plein Air Event