My degree is in Landscape Architecture from the School of Design at NCSU in Raleigh, NC. I have been involved in designing over 500 landscape projects in the RTP area, curated the White Garden at the JC Ralston Arboretum and was a buyer and manager at Logan's Trading Company. I have taught Environmental Education to 4-8 grade children who come to Camp Don Lee from all over the state to learn about our rivers, estuaries and the special environments in the Pamlico Sound. I have been painting since I was seven years old. My passion is painting, and I am always painting. I have a studio, but I mostly paint outside. I paint with a group of Plein Air Painters every Tuesday. I was a member of the Circle 10 Art Gallery located Oriental, NC where I showed and sold my artwork for four years. I have completed three mural projects, two were public art projects and the other one is installed in a private residence. The largest project is the Old Theater in Oriental painting 20' colorful swirls on the building. I have two dragons I am in charge of; I hope they are sleeping now. I have joined the NC Pastel Society, Alamance County Outdoor Painters, and I am a founding member of the Coastal Pastel Society. I also was a founding member of Art on the Neuse Fine Arts Event and the Oriental Plein Air Painters. For a decade, I have studied with Susan Sarback, who is a Plein Air painter and has her own studio and art school plus a gallery, Color and Light, in Sacramento, California. Over the years I have studied with many other artists such as Kevin Beck, Doug Dawson, Lou Wilson, Albert Handel, Lois Giffell, Vickie McKenzie, Dan Nelson and Mike Rooney plus many other artists and workshops. I have made three sailing trips on my sailboat, painting along the way going as far south as the Bahamas and up into the Chesapeake Bay. My passion is COLOR and LIGHT, my muse is connected with all elements and qualities of Further. Further I go on a journey of art, chasing Color and Light. Sometimes I chase my muse with my sailboat, the cutter, “GRACE”.