Female

I bring over thirty years of artistic experience in the arts to my personal expression and art instruction. I started painting sumi-e in January of 2002 with Fumiko Kimura and registered “Nine Lives Studio” in Oct of 2002. “I love the deceptive simplicity, the total connection of the senses, and being totally in the now with the Four Treasures (brush, ink sticks, ink stone and paper). As an artist I am constantly involved with that process of transformation: spirit to image on paper, mixing papers to create new textures, combining a variety of papers to create collage. The idea of mixing and blending different materials is exciting and a natural extension of sumi for me. Embossing metal to create texture, modeling Precious Metal Clay to make jewelry and exploring other media are an outlet for my creativity.”

I am active in promoting the arts and sharing my artistic ability in the community. I am a past President of the Olympia Art League, served as Chairperson of the 2006 and 2007 Capitol City Visual Arts Exhibit and is currently Secretary for the Puget Sound Sumi Artists.