Her current work focuses on the swirl of life in the macro and micro views of the natural world. Simko grew up in Needham and Wellfleet, MA, and graduated from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She worked as an art director and graphic designer in several advertising and high-tech firms in the Boston area, and started Simko Eye Design in 1996, a web andprint, graphic design business. She lives in Chelmsford, MA and has a studio at the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. Simko is a member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA, and has exhibited in many juried shows, including the Copley Society of Art, the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, the Cambridge Art Association, the Concord Art Association, the Arts League of Lowell, the Brush Art Gallery, and the Whistler House Museum in Lowell, MA.