I am a lover of art, gardening, teaching and karaoke. I am a loving partner and a mother to a 17 year old daughter, a 10 year old puppy-son and a wild 4 year old!! My happy place splits time between getting my hands covered with dirt, paint or thread and eating a meal of udon, banh bao and oysters.

After graduating from UC San Diego, I attended FIDM in Los Angeles and worked as a clothing and swimwear designer in the surf industry in Orange County, California, for 13 years. After my stretch in Newport Beach, San Diego was calling me back home. I am very happy to be back and teaching fine art and sewing to children and adults for the last 10 years and raising my daughter in the most beautiful city in Southern California!

I have taught children’s fine art classes, arts and crafts camp, adult art, sketching, sewing and needle-craft for 25 years. My own adventure in art began in Northern California as I painted animal portraits while breaking to pluck and eat raspberries off of a nearby bush during Mrs. Shaha’s outdoor painting class as a child.

With Paint Box Art Studio, I will foster the same loving and supportive relationship between our students and art.

The name pays homage to my favorite childhood book : Panda Bear’s Paint Box. The Illustrator Christopher Santoro really knows his stuff(!).. The way the paint is illustrated is so bright and shiny; it jumps off the page. As a child, I would stare at his pictures for hours.