art teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
From 1996 to 2001, she worked at Providence St. Joseph Medical
Center as an administrative assistant to Sister Colleen Settles.
She and her husband, Bruce McDonald, have two sons, one is grown
and the other is in middle school.
In this exhibit, she has 35 originals on display and several mini
prints and cards. She has already sold three of her originals.
Her favorite mediums are watercolor and oil. Her subject matter,
most often, is flowers because of their rich bright colors, so she
paints them into her still lifes, gardens and room settings. The
painting techniques she uses range from painterly washes of color to
more realistic depictions.
Also exhibiting at Descanso's Boddy House are Gerane Mooney and
Tenny Lim.
Mooney's fifth annual Descanso exhibit is a collection of original
impressionist oil works featuring spring and summer florals and
landscapes from her travels all over North America, Europe and the
British Isles.
Lim is displaying one-of-a-kind pieces made of hand-painted
porcelain, earthenware, stoneware and Raku, an ancient Japanese
technique in which the clay, glazes and firing process give each
piece its own unique art form and fused glass.
The show continues through Feb. 3. Descanso Gardens is at 1418
Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge.
