Mitchell

Born in Farmersville, Texas in March of 1942 .Her formal art training began at 16 with a two year tuition paid scholarship in life drawing at the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles and was soon followed by a four year full tuition scholarship at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1960 she became a designer for Elisabeth Stewart Swimwear and later on as a designer for Campus Casuals. After forming her own uniform design firm in 1969 she began a career in interior design, starting her business in 1974 and continuing until 1988 when she moved to northern Idaho and began painting full time. The artist is best known for her paintings of young women, children and domestic and wild animals in a woodland setting.