Bio

Born and raised along the seacoastal town of Hull, Massachusetts.  As a child, I drew constantly and my subject matter was always the horse.  Despite never growing up in a rural area, but rather along a small town beachfront community.  I'd spend hot summer days hunting for crabs in a cove with a view of Boston Light, and treasure hunted for sea glass and seashells.

But yet, horses were forever casted in my mind. In high school, I took four years of art and my art teacher once asked me, if I ever painted anything beside horses. "Yes," I replied, "I can do unicorns!"

Both my parents, although not professionally artists, also were very artistic and always encouraged my love for art.  As a third grader at the Lillian M. Jacobs School, I had my first public art display of what else, circus horses that I colorfully made green, yellow and purple.

As an adult, I ventured into the world of real horses and begun a journey that led me to showing four years in hunt seat. My first year riding a retired showjumper named Rev, who respectively won me my first championship. Chauncey's Mystic Image, an Anglo-Arab gelding who also won me several ribbons. Both had captured my heart, and it was perhaps their spirit and willingness that brought me more the need to paint and draw horses. Finnigan, aka Spirit of 76, was mud ugly of a horse and no where looked like the typical blanket Appaloosa. He was spunky and energetic, and it was with him when I began riding training level dressage.  Never a dull moment to say the least with him. For the slighest crack of a tree branch and ole Finnigan would start bucking around the ring like a rodeo bronc buster. Caballero True Cat (Caty) was indeed, the one horse who touched my heart the most. A registered Quarter Horse mare, Cat was my first horse that I had ever owned and trained. We would spend countless hours out riding the trail and picking pine cones from her back.

Today I reside in East Tennessee with my husband Steve, and our beautiful daughter. I paint, write and create full time and professionally, as well as being a full time stay at home mother.

My second book The Road Apple Diaries is still under proofreading, and I have recently begun writing my third book Long Journey Home.