A life-long artist, Coni spent 20 years as an advertising designer in San Francisco and Los Angeles before turning to full time painting. A design background and expressionist influences give her a distinctive view of the landscape and she works in both oil and acrylic. Though primarily a plein air painter, she also works in the studio to create larger pieces developed from her studies or sketches.
Coni is a member of Plein Air Artists Colorado (PAAC), Plein Air Painters New Mexico (PAPNM), Spanish Peaks Arts Council, a founding member of High Desert Painters - an international plein air group, and founder of the San Luis Valley Painters. She has painted all over the western United States and Canada, and her work is in collections in the U.S and abroad. Coni has a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Cal State University Long Beach and an M.A. in Painting from Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado, where she lives with her family, paints and teaches painting year around.
"I have been influenced by painters of the American West and Canada, where plein air work has a great tradition, but also by the expressionist painters of the early 20th century. In the last 30 years I have lived and painted in California, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Newfoundland, Canada, and Colorado. - Any day painting out is a good day."- Coni
