She has never moved from the Bay Area. She studied at the Oakland Art Institute from 1937-1940, California School of Arts and Crafts,1954-1958, and the San Francisco Art Institute from 1960-1961. For over 30 years she taught and exhibited her art throughout the Bay Area. Her contemporaries were Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park all of whom were instrumental in the San Francisco figurative movement. Her watercolors are based on her personal history giving full reference to the life of an artist. Her works are in the National Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Oakland and San Jose Museu