Now that I am able to travel more, I use my travel watercolors and photographs to reconstruct the places I have visited. Venice is a main subject, because of the incessant mirroring of colors possible there. Holland also, and now Greece have provided subjects for oils and watercolors. My artist's residency (2002) at Brisons Veor in Cape Cornwall, England, has inspired a series of small and large
watercolors, as well as the opportunity to curate a show of works by the other women artists who have recently held this unusual residency.This view of Nauplion Harbor with its Venetian fort on an island was based on several small watercolor studies. I was intrigued by the boats, the distant mountains, and the dull white sky. Carn Blose Ballowall Barrow is a Neolithic burial barrow on a headland with a view toward Land's End, the westernmost point of Cornwall in England. I painted smallwatercolor studies on site.

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