about me
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
I was born in San Francisco into an artistic family and at a young age drew and painted. My parents Mireille and Phil Wood, grandfather Gottardo Piazzoni, cousin Russ Chatham, great-uncle Maurice del Mué, and many others, were my inspirations.
Earning a B.A. (University of California Berkeley) and an M.A. (San Francisco State University) in English, I taught college composition and literature for several years in New York and California, and also worked in educational media and photography.
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
Early on, I followed in the family's tradition of landscape painting. By the 1980s, I decided to devote more time to artwork, and started exhibiting in numerous solo and group shows, often participating in exhibits supporting land and water protection. My work is in many private collections.
As teenagers during summers in Carmel Valley, my cousin Russ (standing) and I would paint our rural surroundings and hang our efforts on the porch wall of the ranch house.
By painting truthfully, without pretense or artifice, I want to communicate the sense of being in a place – its atmosphere, its beauty – and the thoughts and memories it evokes.
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