Sandy was born and raised in the beautiful natural environment of Northwest Arkansas.  She spent her formative years reading books in the Mimosa tree on her front lawn, standing on her head, or pretending she was an Indian maiden.

Upon graduation from college with her Masters Degree in Social Work, Sandy worked in Columbia, Missouri as a medical social worker.  There she met and married her husband and in 1979 they moved to California.  Three daughters and 23 years later she found herself suddenly a widow with three college age daughters.  She re-entered the workforce and currently works at the University of Southern Calfornia in the Department of Psychology as the Administrative Services Manager. 

One day she woke up...*literally* ...and called upon one of the first of her painting mentors, author and artist, Shelley Stockwell, founder of Creativity Unlimited and the International Hypnosis Ferderation, and she said, "Will you teach me how to paint?"  It was then that her love affair with color, form and composition began.  She worked in watercolors painting representational art for the next 4 years, having the distinct honor to also be mentored during that time by Loa Sprung, NWS, nationally recognized artist, and past president of the National Watercolor Society.  With Loa she refined her technical expertise and became inspired by the breadth and depth of Loa's talent in abstract painting.  NO one paints folds in cloth better than Loa!

In 2003, Sandy moved to Playa Del Rey, California and became a member of the Agape Church of Religious Science.  There she was fortunate to be mentored by Freydon Rassouli, an internationally acclaimed artist and founder of the Fusionart International group.  It was during her time with Rassouli that Sandy expanded her artistic repertoire to paint with acrylics and to begin to consciously connect and paint with Spirit, allowing the brush, the paint and the girl in the Mimosa tree to paint what her soul is singing.