Bio & Awards

I've always been in love with horses and the American West having grown up on western film (all of us photography "boomers" seem to be saying that these days), so just as thrilling to me has been my good fortune to photograph some of our local ranch life. My favorite photo shoots are being out on the ranches, absorbing every detail of work during branding season. The dust, the smoke, the smell of leather and the scent of sweat on the horses. I find myself leaning in to take the tight shots that convey the details in the chaps and spurs, their creases and textures, well-worn leather or a weathered face. With tight shots, the viewer’s eye is drawn to the details that typically may go unnoticed. When I am behind the camera, nothing else seems to exist except what I am looking at through the lens and thankfully, I’ve been saved a couple of times by a cowboys’ shout when a protective cow has sized me up when I’ve been too close to her calf.

One of the best things about putting the collection of photographs together for the SWC (Southwest Colorado) book was going through and rediscovering images that I had forgotten. And isn’t that what taking photographs is all about? Recording life events, scenic places and treasured moments. Photographs can bring you back to a time and place with such intensity, it’s as if was yesterday. I invite you into my collection of images I've chosen to display here.

Please visit my webstore and if you're in Colorado, my work can be found at the following locations:

Ouray: Ago Gallery, Khristopher's Culinaire, Ouray Bookshop

Montrose: Camelot Gardens and Montrose Visitor Center

Ridgway: 610 Art's Collective, Timber Creek, Sherbino Theatre (prints above the bar), Praise Productions

Grand Junction: Grand Valley Books

Activity:

2024 - Durango Magazine - Summer/Fall, full page, Colorado Country Life magazine; cover, March 2024

2023 - Exhibit @ The Wright Opera House, Sept. 1st thru Sept. 27th.

2022

Ridgway Chamber of Commerce - Award/Judges selected images for publication in the 2023 Ridgway Visitor Guide.
Exhibits - The Wright Opera House & the Ridgway Library
OCAA 60th National Juried art exhibit & sale. 3 of 3 accepted, 2 sold.
1st Place - "The Monarch", Colorado Country Life Magazine.
Exhibit - Joint exhibit with my husband, Wright Opera House, Ouray, CO.
Finalist - Cowboys & Indians magazine - 2022 Feb/March Issue - "High Country Meadow" - Finalist
St. Mary's (Grand Junction, CO) purchase of submitted work.

2021

1st Place - The Drive Home", Colorado Country Life Magazine
Exhibit - Joint exhibit at the Wright Opera House, Ouray, CO.
Grand Prize - Circle Graphics annual winter contest with "Aspens in Winter"
St. Mary's Hospital - Purchase award for five of my images at their new lab in Grand Junction, CO
1st Place - Cowboys & Indians annual photo Contest with "Headed for Trouble" and finalist with "Mountain Pool" (Feb/March 2021 issue.)
Exhibit - Solo exhibit, Montrose Center for the Arts, Montrose, CO.

2020 - 2019

Solo Exhibit - 610 Arts Gallery, Ridgway, CO
Third Place - Colorado Country Life magazine, March issue with "Gotta Run"
Published - Europe's EOS Magazine Reader's Challenge

2018

"Best in Show" (across all mediums) at the 58th Artist's Alpine Holiday juried art show with "Gotta Run"
1st Place - Professional Division Montrose Visual Art Guild - "Gotta Run"
Finalist - Cowboys & Indians magazine annual photo contest with "Advice From a Bullrider" (Feb/March issue)
Finalist - Photographer's Forum Magazine, with "Gunnison River Sunset"

2017

Finalist - Cowboys & Indians magazine annual photo contest with "Gunnison River Sunset"
2nd Place - 57th Annual Artist's Alpine Holiday show with "Gunnison River Sunset"
Exhibit - Solo show, Wright Opera House, Ouray, CO
Finalist - Photographer's Forum Magazine with "War Relic-4491"

2016 - 2015

Winner - USA Regional Excellence in Book Awards for “SWC-Southwest Colorado”, in two categories: Coffee table/Photography book.
Finalist at the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in two categories: Coffee Table book/Photography book.
Finalist at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Coffee Table/Photography book.
Finalist - Photographer's Forum Magazine with "May Storm"
1st Place (category) - Cowboys & Indians magazine, annual photo Contest with "Back Country"
1st Place-Pro division with "Charro Spurs" at Uintah Arts Council, Vernal, UT
Published - “SWC-Southwest Colorado”, a 120 page book with 50 color photographs of SW Colorado scenery in Nov. 2015. Sold out in two months! Second printing in March 2016.
Exhibit-Ridgway Library, Ridgway, CO