She is an artist working in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. She is an experienced teacher and the founder and, until recently, long-time director of a nature elementary school in Salmon Arm. She specialises in natural printing, using leaves, flowers and fruits to dye fabrics.
She is currently studying native plant species from the Okanagan region and their colour properties. Even seemingly insignificant handling of a plant or part of a plant can affect the colour and shape of the printed area. For the Ore Mountains, she created eight silk panels evoking a forest using natural printing techniques.
This is a forest that she knows well and would like to see in our mountains — a forest with all its necessary layers. This work thus offers an alternative vision of natural forest growth — an experience that is not yet common in the Ore Mountains.