[ B I O G R A P H Y ]

Born in SLC long ago. Worked in computer engineering for 20 years. Mother of two, grandmother of three, stepmother of four, stepgrandmother of five - all exceptional.

In and out of Utah for many years, I returned in '97, found a job and began keeping company with a desert-loving artist, Mark Knudsen. Under Mark's tutelage I started painting again after years without. Today, Mark and I are married and painting is all we want to do. We can be found touring the intermountain west or working in our Sugarhouse or Moab studios.

Artist Statement Although, or maybe because, I have lived many years elsewhere, the beauty of my native state has always been my ideal. The Utah landscape - so much of it not for our use, not to our scale - has been my central experience of the beauty of this world.

I want to make paintings that show me our home, this western land, not comprehended by faith or theory, but odd and beautiful, delicious to the eye and to the heart.

Between us art-lovers there is a common hope – that a painting can participate in the creation of meaning, and that our response to it is a part of that meaning.

Happy trails.