Born 1928 in Brookline, MA., I grew up in Connecticut at the Thomas School in Rowayton, run by my family. There began my art training with my mother, first in oil painting, then charcoal portraiture. Continued in sculpture (terra cotta figures) and art history at Vassar College, where I built a diorama of prehistoric mammals  for the geology museum.

After teaching Eskimos in Alaska, (1949-51) and two years living at Cordova, Alaska, I settled in Vermont with my family in 1954. For several years I taught remedial reading privately and illustrated children's books. The first book to be published was done in color as a joint master's degree project with my husband. We both earned the M.Ed. degree from Plymouth (NH) State College in 1957. Several other books followed, mostly done in pen or brush and ink. I also illustrated some books for Irving Adler and one for Olive Burt  - all published by John Day Company, New York. 

When all my children reached school age I returned to full time classroom teaching at the primary level in the Bennington area's elementary schools. The last few years I taught art at Catamount and Bennington Elementary schools K-6.

In 1987 I retired to devote full time to my own painting and to teaching adults. A change to watercolor involved considerable new training at the Phoebe Flory School of Watercolor at Mont Vernon, NH. I also studied with several nationally known teachers: Carlton Plummer (two weeks in Maine, two weeks in Southwest Ireland), Judi Betts, Don Andrews, Frank Webb, Betty Lou Schlemm, Tony Couch, Charles Reid, and Milford Zornes, with whom I continue to study whenever he comes east from California. In 1991 I enjoyed a  two-week workshop with Zornes in Arizona and Utah, another in 1999 to Cornwall, England and the Scilly Isles. 

For many years I have been showing and selling my work throughout the region and on the Gaspe´ peninsula of Quebec. My greatest interest now is outdoor landscape painting, but when the weather is bad I still love doing still-lifes. Belonging to a life drawing group, which meets weekly, is very worthwhile, too. 

Trying to capture the patterns of light on any interesting subject - human still life, or the great outdoors - is my greatest fascination. Watercolor is always a challenge, never quite under control, and somewhat unpredictable. It is also portable, quick, spontaneous, and can be very dramatic. The effects of changing light on the landscape, the constantly shifting moods, colors, and textures as the seasons come and go, are a never-ending delight. Landscape painting is a wonderful excuse to be outdoors (along with gardening and cross-country skiing!) , a chance to intensely enjoy one's environment. My hope is to help others to feel what I have seen and felt, to "save" the environment by recording my feelings about it in my paintings, in addition to my intensive environmental-political activism.

Education

1945 Thomas School, Rowayton, CT
1949 Vassar College, B.A.
1957  Plymouth (NH) State College, M.Ed.
1986-87 Carlton Plummer, AWS, East Boothbay, Maine, and 2 weeks in SW Ireland
1989-90 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Artists' Week
1989-92 30-hour workshops with Judi Betts, Betty Lou Schlemm, Frank Webb, Don Andrews, and Milford Zornes
1998 30-hour workshop with Tony Couch
1999 Two-week workshop in Cornwall, England, with Milford Zornes
2000 30-hour workshop with Don Andrews

1962 Eskimo Island by Phillip Viereck (and jacket)
1963 Independence Must Be Won by Phillip Viereck 
1965 The Summer I was Lost by Phillip Viereck (and jacket)
1967 The New Land by Phillip Viereck 
1967  Groups in the New Math by Irving Adler
1968  The National Road by Olive Burt
1969 Directions and Angles by Irving Adler
1970 Energy by Irving Adler
1971 Atomic Energy by Irving Adler
1972 Let Me Tell You About My Dad by Phillip Viereck 
(all published by John Day Company, New York)

1952-54 The Northern Hotel Lobby (pastel landscapes), Cordova, AK
1966-68 The Gallery, North Street Bennington, VT (all oil landscapes)
1960s-present Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT (oils, watercolors, group shows)
1989  Beside Myself Gallery, Manchester, VT (one-person show)
1990  Apple's Gallery, Main Street, Bennington, VT (solo show)
1990 & 1991 Northern Berkshire Mental Health Assoc., North Adams, MA (group show)
1991-present Hospital Corridor Gallery, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Bennington (group shows annually)
1992   McCullough Library,  North Bennington (solo show)
1994-96 Equinox Hotel Annual Show, Manchester, VT 
1993-95 Annual AIDS Benefit Show, Bennington College
1995  Whipstock Hill Benefit Show, NoBIAS Gallery, North Bennington, VT and Troy, NY
1995  Bennington Museum Members' Show
1995-Present Gindfor Gallery, Cambridge, NY (group shows)
2000  Vermont Watercolor Society Show, West Village Meeting House, West Brattleboro, VT
2001  Hunter Lea Gallery, Ludlow, VT (group show)

1949-51 Alaska Native Service, teacher at King Island in the Bering Straits (K-3)
1954-60 Taught remedial reading privately
1961-62 Acting Director, Bennington College Nursery School
1962-64 Pine Cobble School, Williamstown, MA (4th, 5th grades)
1965-67 Remedial Reading, Bennington Graded School District
1967-68 Regular substitute for Marion Stroud, Prospect School, North Bennington
1969-81 Classroom teacher, Molly Stark School Bennington, primary grades
1981-82 Classroom teacher, Molly Stark School Bennington,  6th grade
1982-87 Art Teacher, grades 1-8, Bennington Elementary and Catamount Schools, Bennington School District
1987  Retired to pursue my own art career and to teach adults watercolor painting