Artist Statement I received a BA in Art from Indiana University where I studied jewelry design and silversmithing under Alma Eikerman and Helen Shirk. More recently I took classes at th Glassell School of Art in Houston,Texas under Sandy Zilker and Jan Harrell. My work is made by using the techniques of piercing, sawing, construction, forming, enameling and etching.  I am  a member of the Houston Metal Arts Guild. I was lucky to be raised by parents that encouraged my creativity, love of nature and inquisitiveness. All my siblings are creative and we are all inspired by nature. My sister Fran Hart is a visionary artist who lives in Honaunau on the big island of Hawaii. Both our creative works have a  spiritual basis. My brother Roger Berrier creates beauty through plants as part of his work at the Norfolk, Virginia cemeteries. My son, Douglas Petranoff has just moved to El Paso, Texas and is working at the El Paso Zoo. I'm fascinated by archeology and nature and have studied the ancient cultures of  the world and my art has these things as it's inspiration. Native American petroglyphs and pictographs caught my interest when I participated in a field trip in 1986 to sites in Utah. Since then, I have continued to research, record and photograph other rock art sites in Utah as well as Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. I have also visited sites in Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Baja in Mexico. Recently I have begun to visit sites in other countries besides the United States and Mexico.  In July of 2000 I spent a month in Australia. In September of 2001 I visited the Paleolithic Caves in Spain. In August of 2005 I headed back to Australia - I love that country!! In May of 2006 I moved from Houston, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico. In March of 2007 I made a trip to southwestern Egypt for a two week trip into the Sahara desert. It was incredible. Where next? "My work is inspired by actual images made by ancient peoples. Looking for petroglyphs and pictographs is an adventure. I'm inspired by these magical images. I feel like the ancient artists are trying to communicate with us. I try to make each piece a spiritual creation as well as an artistic one." I am a member of the American Rock Art Research Association, the Colorado Rock Art Assocation, the Southern Nevada Rock Art Research Association, the Nevada Rock Art Foundation, the Eastern States Rock Art Association and the Utah Rock Art Research Association.  I have recently joined the Dona Ana Archeology Society and the El Paso Archeology Society and am serving as the archivists for EPAS. I have also helped archeologists record sites and I've used my artistic abilities to help some with illustrations used in presentations at different symposiums. I did my first recording in 1986 and have continued working on projects ever since. In April and September 1999 I helped Rupestrian CyberServices on a project for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. We were working at Hueco Tanks State Historical Park outside El Paso, Texas.  In 2001 and 2002 I worked with them on recording projects in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.  My latest recording project was in January of 2008 at Sear's Point in Southwestern Arizona.