Welcome to my website. I am very excited to share my story of how I became an artist. I hold a deep passion and dedication to the field of Fine Arts. I grew up in Michigan, the second youngest of seven children. My family were athletes so my creative abilities didn’t blossom until my own family of five children were grown and I had fiercely fought cancer and became a survivor. A life threatening illness can bring so much out of a person. As we gain back our self-worth, hopefully we have the strength to find a missing part of our lives. That part for me was my creativity. Good fortune guided me to study photography in San Francisco. I began discovering what I had been missing. Under the watchful eye of John Weir, Robert Barry, and Timo, my passion for expressing myself through Fine Arts Photography became a reality. My photography has been shown in Portland Oregon, San Francisco CA, and San Diego CA. Through the lens I see strong and powerful images. They are mainly abstracts that allow the viewer to feel what they see with no right or wrong judgments. When the digital age became part of our lives, I immersed myself in painting. I express myself in free and unstructured mediums. I use Alcohol Inks and Acrylic, many times combining the two. I had the good fortune to get to know a fantastic artist from Australia, Graeme Stevenson. He came to San Diego to film me in my studio. I had been painting with Alcohol Inks for 5-6 years at that time. I was amazed how new the medium was to so many viewers and how fascinated they became seeing me work moving the ink around on non-porous substrate. Alcohol Ink is amazing with it's deep saturated hues. It is quick to dry and it has a mind of it's own so the artist my move and think very spontaneously. It is my hope that we can connect either in your desire to hang my art in your life or to help explain the process I go through with Alcohol Ink or Acrylics. Thank you for allowing me into your life today. If you're interested in Alcohol Inks, you can go to YouTube and search for peggystokes(Colour In Your Life). Here is the YouTube video about it.