Thank you for visiting Silk Marble Studio. I am a fabric artist living on California’s Central Coast. After retiring from running a business with my husband in Southern California for 25 years, we moved to rural Templeton where I now pursue my art and my husband cultivates and grows orchids.

It took me a few years, post retirement, to figure out what I wanted to do after spending so many years fully consumed with running our chemical distribution business. I was the finance and operations part of the business, applying my education in business, accounting and marketing research. None of that sounds very artistic, and it wasn’t except that we represented companies in the paint and coatings industry, mostly industrial applications, but there were some arts applications. Had I known what I was going to fall into after retirement, I would have paid a lot more attention to the artsy side of the industry.

I always knew I would gravitate to some form of art, I just had to find what inspired me. I took several workshops from local artists and found I most enjoyed silk painting and it has become my passion. And that passion has taken me from creating original, hand painted silk scarves to wearable art.

Thank you for visiting Silk Marble Studio. I am a fabric artist living on California’s Central Coast. After retiring from running a business with my husband in Southern California for 25 years, we moved to rural Templeton where I now pursue my art and my husband cultivates and grows orchids.

It took me a few years, post retirement, to figure out what I wanted to do after spending so many years fully consumed with running our chemical distribution business. I was the finance and operations part of the business, applying my education in business, accounting and marketing research. None of that sounds very artistic, and it wasn’t except that we represented companies in the paint and coatings industry, mostly industrial applications, but there were some arts applications. Had I known what I was going to fall into after retirement, I would have paid a lot more attention to the artsy side of the industry.

I always knew I would gravitate to some form of art, I just had to find what inspired me. I took several workshops from local artists and found I most enjoyed silk painting and it has become my passion. And that passion has taken me from creating original, hand painted silk scarves to wearable art.