Boat yards, black labs, crab feasts, tropical ports, iridescent fish are all scenes from her life of living near the water. Her studio and home are in deep country on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. She grew up in Skaneateles, one of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. Summers were spent on Murray Isle on the St. Lawrence River. For many years, she cruised the Chesapeake on the sloop Northern Sky. In the winter, she has often sought refuge in the Bahamas. Drawings of details are noted in her sketchbook and brought home to the studio to find their way into paintings. Majoring in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, her work has since been chosen to be exhibited in galleries; Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute of Art, among others.