She also studied painting at the Boston Museum School. She was a resident painter at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT and a resident fellow at the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY. She settled on Cape Ann in Rockport in 1996. Among the numerous awards she has received is the Paul Strisik Memorial Award for Excellence in Oils in 2001 from the North Shore Arts Association of which she is a member.