In 2004, Minnie and her husband moved from the Pacific Northwest to the Fingerlakes Region of New York. There they bought a large 1830s house, complete with a painting studio on the top floor.
Her early work included still-life drawings and watercolors, these latter primarily a series of intense portraits of flowers, a kind of botanical expressionism. A job in the early 90s doing scenic painting for theater productions led her to oils; it was here that she found her preferred medium.
Since 2001 she has been immersed in the study of yoga, and that practice has enlarged her painting by breathing new life and ease into the creative process, as well as by deepening her sense of spiritual attachment to the world around her.
In Minnie's paintings, remembered landscapes are blended with those in front of her. The work in her last show was an intimate look at trees, not only the varied shapes of the branches and trunks, but as much also at the spaces in between. Her work is loosely representational but relies heavily on filters of emotion and memory.
Minnie's interest in trees continues here, fueled now by the seasonally changing hardwood forests of the Northeast, by the stark and low winter sun that marks the forest floor, and by the increased awareness of one's surroundings that inevitably comes with a move to a new world.