After growing up in the San Fernando Valley of the 1960’s and 1970’s and a career as an advertising & editorial illustrator in Los Angeles in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, I moved to Ojai and began creating art that is motivated by my inner process and inspired by my the world around me.

Exhibits

2004 “Best of the Best”, Buena Ventura Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, California

2004 “Tradition and Technology”, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, California

2004 “Buddha Abides” Caruso/Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

2004 Ventura Chamber Music Festival Violin Competition, Ventura, California

2005 Buenaventura Gallery, "Appearances & Prophecies"*

2006 Featured Artist, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura Art Walk*

2006 “New Work” Group Exhibit, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

2007 “Small Works” Group Exhibit, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

2007 "Bennett, Norton, Bennett", CSUCI Exhibitions Gallery, Camarillo, California

2008 “Made in Ojai”, Ojai Valley Museum, Ojai, California

2008 “ Entre Cielo Y Tierra, Between Heaven & Earth", Ventura County Museum, Ventura, California

2009 "Human Botany"
Julie Rico Galley, Los Angeles, California

2009 Artists in Residence, Joshua Tree National Park, California

2009 “Openings,” Feature article in “Spirituality and Health” magazine November/December issue

2010 “before our very eyes”, Beato Gallery, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, California

2010 “March”, Vita Art Center, Ventura, California First place honoraium for jurored show.

2010 “Love thy earth”, Vita Art Center, Ventura, California

2010 "time stand still" Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center*

2010 Grant Recipient, Ventura County Artists in Community Partnerships Grant

2010 "De Colores" exhibit at the Santa Paula Art Museum

2010 "eye wonder", Ojai House, Ojai, California*

2011 "Artists in Residence group show" Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center

2011 "Be a saint" Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, California

 

2012

January 15 through April 15, 2012 "birds i view" public art exhibit in the windows of the Coastal Communities Cancer Center, Ventura, California

May 12 through June 29, 2012 "before our very eyes" solo exhibit, Logan Gallery, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

Opening reception; Saturday May 12, 2012, 2 to 5 pm

*Solo exhibits

To see more work:

Human Arts Gallery, Ojai, California

Beatrice Woods Center for the Arts, Ojai, California


 

Magazine articles and Publications

download Ojai Quarterly Magazine, Winter 2011 issue: "Art and About" by Anca Colbert

download Spirituality and Health, March 2010 issue: "Openings" by Stephen Kiesling

click here Santa Barbara Independent, October 9, 2010  by Linda Harmon

click here for The Sun Runner magazine, October 2010  by Caryn Davidson