Growing up riding and showing horses in Southern California, I have always loved all things western. After college I moved to the forgotten corner of California, Modoc County, “Where the West Still Lives” and married into a ranching family. I have been blessed to have a husband who supports and encourages my love of creating western art.

My formal training was as a bootmaker, having studied with two of the countries finest craftsmen, D.W. Frommer II and Lisa Sorrell. Both are nationally recognized for their fine craftsmanship and their exquisite inlay/overlay work. Fine leather inlay/overlay work is a dying art. When done properly, it requires a great deal of skill and attention to detail and is extremely time consuming. Each piece of leather requires beveling and skiving (shaving the flesh side of the hide off with a very sharp knife) to ensure that the finished images flow seamlessly from color to color without interruption, much like fine joinery work, devoid of crude seams or gutters.

As a bootmaker I find the most rewarding aspect of the craft is the inlay/overlay work. With this in mind I have shifted directions in my business to focus on creating western leather inlay/overlay works of art for the home.