Valerie grew up in the Bay Area, California where she started painting and drawing at a young age. She went on to study fine art in college and had many amazing professors, including Rebecca J. Alex and Noah Buchanan. During her studies, she had the opportunity to spend a semester in Florence, Italy, where she fully immersed herself in art history and especially enjoyed learning about Renaissance and Baroque artistic methods and techniques.

An enriching career in Architecture and Construction honed Valerie’s design and visual composition skills over the next 10+ years.  After the birth of her daughter in 2020, she and her family moved to Olympia, Washington where Valerie found a renewed passion for fine art. She is now a resident artist at Boom Studios in Olympia.