My passions are travel and photography. Fortunately I have been able to combine both of them. As a child I was immersed in different cultures. Photography has always been a part of that life. When I was seven or eight I got my first camera at the post exchange in Athens, Greece. I have been traveling the world recording my impressions ever since. Santa Fe workshops with Raul Touzon, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum art school with Ron Renfew are all experiences which have shaped my vision. Four years of figure drawing and painting at the Tucson Museum of Art with Susan Kay Johnson has taken my photography to a higher level.