Norma's interest in art started when she won a scholarship for summer school at the Art Institute of Chicago.   She attended classes that summer and thus began a life long interest in oil painting.

  She has attended classes in the evening school in Wheaton, Illinois and the DuPage Art League.   She has attended workshops in Door County, Wisconsin and Sante Fe, New Mexico as well as several others. Along the way she has received several awards.   Since moving to Florida a few years ago she has been studying plein air oil painting with a well known Florida
artist.  

  She and her husband Jim, live on the West coast of Florida where many of the local beaches are a source of painting enjoyment. She has paintings at the Island Gallery West, The Restless Natives, Longboat Art league and the Art Center of Manatee.