Penny is a lifelong artist whose work is in numerous private collections from California and Maine to New York and Florida. She is a member of Plein Air Tallahassee, Tallahassee Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Jefferson Arts, Inc. and a Board Member of Franklin Cultural Arts Council. She sells many plein air paintings and only original work (no prints).
Penny was born in California, went to high school on Long Island, received a BS in Biology from Arizona State University in 1976 and a Masters in Herbology from the School of Natural Healing in 2002. She has two grown sons, Eric and Brian. Currently she lives in Carrabelle, Florida next to a river and the Gulf of Mexico.
Penny taught watercolor at the Carrabelle Branch of the Big Bend Boys and Girls Club in 2009 involving her students in The Great Plein Air Paint-Out where they were able to paint, mingle and exhibit along with some of the nationally acclaimed artists. An exhibit of student's work line the walls of the Carrabelle Minicipal Complex.
Exhibits include forty-seven original watercolors in a solo exhibit titled "Watercolors - Fom Here to There: a Visual Tour From the Gulf Coast to Tallahassee" at Jefferson Art Gallery in 2008. Annual Studio and Gallery Open House, Gulf State Community Bank, Tallahassee Visitors Center, Bali Hi Trading Co., Mexico Beach Art and Wine Festival where she received second place for watercolors in 2007, TaWS Brushstrokes Annual Juried Members' Exhibits 2008-09, Carrabelle Riverfront Festival, League of Cities, and Downtown MarketPlace (Tallahassee), and "A Taste of the Coast" 2007-10(Port St. Joe) where her watercolor received Fellow Artists Award for Best Painting, and Annual ArtWalk 2007-10 (Apalachicola). Most recently three paintings were selected in COCA's Creative Tallahasse Annual Juried Exhibition 2010 at City Hall in which she received Honorable Mention. Carrabelle City Hall now has a permanent exhibit of ten of Penny's watercolors.