- Born: September 11, 1955
- Education:
- Santa Barbara Art
Institute
- Santa
Barbara City College
- Mendocino
Art Center
- Honorary
Lifetime Member Santa Barbara Art Association (1974)
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Founding Member of The Oak Group of Landscape Painters
(1986)
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Married to Chris Chapman, fellow artist, teacher, and Oak Group Member
- Brother of Larry Iwerks, fellow artist and Oak Group Member
- Son of Don Iwerks, Academy Award winner – Lifetime
Achievement Award
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Grandson of Ub Iwerks, early Disney partner and creator of Mickey Mouse
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Student of Ray Strong,revered Santa Barbara landscape painter
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Instructor Adult Ed: Sketching in Nature and Beginning Oil Painting
Interesting Commissions Along the Way:
SB Museum of
Natural History:
- Condor Diorama
with Ray Strong -Bird Habitat Hall
- Nature Trail
Illustrations
The
Nature Conservancy:
- Carrizo Plain
Ntl. Monument, Artist-in-Residence 1991-94
Designed
and
painted exhibits
and mural for Goodwin Education Ctr.
- Guadalupe Dunes
Visitors Ctr. –
Interactive Paint-By-Number
Mural
I Madonarri
Italian Street Painting Festival, SB Mission –
Featured Artist 1998
National
Park
Service
- Santa Barbara
Island Visitors Ctr., Mural, Diorama, Topographic model,
Bronze
- Channel Is. Ntl.
Park Headquarters, Ventura – Pygmy Mammoth
art &
animation
Cal
State
University, Northridge – Geologic mural of region
15 million years ago
City
of Laguna
Hills – 4 community center murals of
region’s prehistoric past
Arroyo
Hondo
Preserve – Co-managed Preserve with Chris
Chapman 2001-2005
Trust
for Public
Land – Sperling Preserve, Ellwood Mesa
– Bronze Donor Monument
SB
City College
– 2 exterior 50 ft. murals,
geologic cross-sections of USA and SB region
Gallery
Representation: The Easton Gallery (since
1991)
