Born in Chicago, Illinois and growing up in the northwest suburbs of the windy city, Bev took all the art classes available throughout her early school years. Summer school at the Chicago Art Institute further aroused her interest in drawing & painting.

While attending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Bev took a variety of art courses. Love and marriage may have ended her scholastic pursuit, but not her desire to become a working artist. While raising their first son Tim, Bev also taught and produced original creative stitchery pictures for a few years. Bev explains, "I was beginning to feel like a human sewing machine!" So she quit that field of art and returned to the drawing and painting she always loved. Detailed drawings of local Victorian houses, old barns, and train stations soon were the subjects of choice. When the family moved back to Illinois in 1976, she refined her technique into detailed pen and ink with watercolor washes. Paintings now were becoming a more architectural study of a building. Being a very detailed-oriented artist, she personally travels to photograph 90% of the subjects she paints. Bev considers all this travel one of the perks of her career and says, "Any time spent on any shore and by any light is my idea of a great time!"

The family moved to Washington State in 1978 and second son, Mike was born. Soon boating occupied the majority of the family’s leisure hours and Bev's new-found interest in lighthouses became her passion. In 1997, with both sons on their own and now widowed, Bev moved herself and her studio cross-country to Connecticut in pursuit of new markets and visits to lighthouses geographically much closer together. But in 2006 her longing for family, dear old friends and the Pacific Northwest drew her back to Washington.

During her career, Bev has exhibited at arts and craft shows in the Northwest, Midwest and East coast winning many ribbons and awards, had 1-woman shows, work purchased and hung in both public, private and business permanent collections, written a monthly art show review column for a national artists magazine, taught special art classes in elementary schools in three states and still, occasionally, gives a slide show talk on the lighthouses of Washington state. She has served on the Snohomish Arts Council and was featured on the PBS series Legendary Lighthouses. Occasionally she works with companies that wish to use her art work on new products they are developing. Expanding her selection of laminated lighthouse bookmarks, featuring lights from all USA coastal areas, is keeping her very busy. She is currently serving on the Mukilteo Historical Society board and actively involved at her favorite wooden lighthouse – the Mukilteo Light Station.

When you select a piece of Bevs' work, you will have a little piece of maritime history and a piece of work created from this artists' heart.