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I’m a Montana girl. Raised on a farm/ranch outside of Belt. I finished high school in Highwood, Montana. Attended College of Great Falls. I have always loved animals and rode horses in drill teams. I have a love of flying and finished my pilots license while in college. 

I started painting in oils. They would travel with me in a tackle box. While everyone fished I would paint the Glacier Park mountains from the boat. Later I would try watercolors on Flathead Lake.

I had a great art teacher in high school and college.

I liked taking workshops: 

•             Oils:     

• Joe Abbrescia, JoeKronenberg,

• Joyce De Ford and Barry Dumaw               Watercolors:

• Shirley Bird Wright and Joyce De Ford 

•            Pastels:  

• Lesley Harrison and Shirley Bird Wright

•         Silk Painting: 

• Janene Grende