Bim grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and learned first from the artists around her. Her parents and grandparents, though not professional artists, were extremely creative people who consistently filled their lives and mine with making things of one kind or another.

As she got older, and through college, the more she learned about art and other artists and every new way of making things, the more she liked it and the more infatuated she became. Bim pursued art through her undergraduate years, through years of child-rearing and now into the great unknown.

Today, she lives in rural Baltimore County with her husband, their dogs, an ever-varying number of children and four exquisite, precious and endlessly entertaining grandchildren.