Her work as activities director in senior care homes in Oregon and Scotland has led her to explore human relationships in the contemporary age.
In her 2008 artist's statement for an installation she wrote: "I am witness to the modern anomaly of dividing the tribe - of the separation of generations from one another, each to their respective institutions.
As an artist, my interest in this subject has led me to seek out communities of all kinds for my work, both traditional and uniquely present-day, exploring the relationships we have developed or abandoned in this contemporary age.
She is represented by galleries in Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Aberdeen, Scotland.
She also won the Lake Oswego Public Art Award in 2007, and The George Sugarman Foundation Grant in 2007 for socially conscious artists.