Originally from the Kansas City area, she relocated to Duluth in 2013 to be near Lake Superior and the north woods. A lifelong painter with a concurrent interest in design, she has a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and two architectural degrees from the University of Kansas. She was co-owner of the acclaimed contemporary Joseph Nease Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. She has exhibited extensively and recently had a solo exhibition of paintings in the Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute. Her work is in corporate, museum and private collections in Missouri, Kansas and Minnesota. She is represented in Duluth by Lizzard's Gallery.