Trish feels lucky to have grown up on the Big Island in the ‘50s and ‘60s and to have been able to return in ’87 to again call Hawaii home.

She began her formal visual arts education early in her youth. For several years, along with her 2 brothers, her parents sent her to learn, study and practice art with artist, Kay K Yamamoto, in an after school tutorial in the artist’s basement in Hilo. She began learning the basic elements of art with pencil drawing, charcoal and then oil painting.

Summers in the ‘60s were often spent at the beach house in Kona where art lessons in water color and other medium were taken at the famed old coffee mill which San Francisco artists, Carol and Bob Rogers established as the Kona Art Center in Holualoa.

Her college education in the arts took her first to Coe College in Iowa, New York City for independent study, UC Santa Cruz and UH Manoa where she graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Drawing and Painting with Honors.

After graduation, life’s circumstances diverted her career path into advertising, then kitchen design, study in architecture, historical architectural renewal and development, consulting and then education.

Retirement opened its doors in 2013 and Trish was able to return to her own fine art pursuits.

In 2014, a friend and Pastel Artist, Lynn Brown, invited Trish into her studio to try pastel as a medium. She was immediately “in love” and currently works solely in pastel.

Since then, Trish has studied with several Master Pastel Artists.

She is a member of Pastel Artists of Hawaii.

One of her pieces took First Place in Waimea Art Council’s 2017 Juried Helen M Cassidy Memorial Art Show.

Trish’s work has been featured on the covers of the 2019 Waimea Business Directory and on the 2022 September/October Ke Ola Magazine (featured artist).

Her work is exhibited and for sale at Big Island Art Fair in Waimea (www.BigIslandArtFair.com)

She also welcomes interested individuals to contact her directly to visit her studio in Waimea (thelmsclass@yahoo.com) where she currently resides.