Her family moved to California 23 years ago, into their 1913 Pasadena craftsman's
house with the perfect room for a serious artist's studio on the second floor. This where fond pet owners take their beloved pet dogs to be captured in canvas for posterity. Though she does some of her four pawed posers in charcoal or oils, the lady painter uses mostly pastels. Christmas is the favorite time of clients to come in, making her have more work than usual.An average portraitist of human beings spill flattery for their subjects once in a while and she reveals she does this to her subjects too. Along with her husband, a retired electrical engineer, she has been raising dogs known as salukis, purebred hounds with bloodlines reach back to ancient Persia and Egypt.