About

I'm a self-taught artist with a background in classical literature as an academic, editor, and author. I hold multiple graduate degrees in French literature, including an M.Phil. from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D. from Yale. As an editor I’ve published two anthologies of literary essays with Penguin-Random House, one on Jane Austen and the other on Shakespeare. My paintings have been acquired by private collectors and featured in various publications, including the canonical Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection; select pieces are represented by the Christopher Hill Gallery. I’ve lived in Paris, Lyon, London, New Haven, San Francisco, and West Hollywood, and my art assistant Agatha (shown) and I currently divide our time between the Napa Valley where I was born and the prairies of rural Northern Oregon, where we live with my husband (see below), his two dogs, and the town deer.

This is Mike Greenough, my husband, who is in charge of many essential elements of logistics, as well as hanging pictures high up on gallery walls, trying unsuccessfully to talk me out of buying more Staffordshire dogs, and reluctantly carrying a small fluffy real dog in his wife's purse in bookstores (shown: Agatha is in the purse you can't quite see him holding, hence the expression). 

And this is Sophia Flores Fagan, whose official title is Executive Assistant, but who is in actuality our very own Mary Poppins. Not only does she swoop in and bring tidiness and fun here with innate elegance, common sense, and patience, she's the mother of five beautiful children ranging in ages from two to eighteen!

And this is Agatha, my plucky and ready-for-anything Art Assistant, who has dined at Les Deux Magots, studied the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, been blessed by the Pope, taken gondola rides in Venice, and been - unfairly - kicked out of the Acropolis. She was given a dangerous blood condition by unscrupulous vets who over-vaccinated her, but after some harrowing months she's stable and improving every day!