I grew up in Chalfont, PA and have lived in Lahaska,PA since 1988. I taught at Buckingham Elementary in the Central Bucks School District for thirty-three years and retired in 2006 to be able to spend more time devoted to painting. I didn’t start painting until 1999 when I was 48. After my husband died in 1998, I decided to take a year off from teaching; I took piano lessons, started to paint, and with my two kids, who were 7 and 11 at the time, travelled extensively. Most of my early paintings were of places we had visited on our trips. As we reinvented...more