Gretchen's lifelong artistic passion led to a Fine Arts degree from Iowa State University, where she won numerous awards for her artwork and learned a host of techniques for drawing and painting in watercolor and acrylics.

Her fantasy mermaid art, angel art, and fairy artwork is distributed worldwide from her studio in Desert Hills, Arizona. There, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, she and her husband, Greg, enjoy the sounds of quail in the morning and coyote at night.