Whitney grew up in Waco, Texas, rooted in generations of family history and surrounded by wide skies, heat, and a deep sense of story. Later, life carried her north to Orcas Island in the Salish Sea, where water, fog, and fir forests are the backdrop of her life. These two landscapes — the American South and the Pacific Northwest — live together in her work.

She spent her childhood in sanctuaries and historic spaces — old homes, small towns, historic villages, and buildings rich with character — surrounded by interesting architecture, natural materials, and the living world. That early immersion in texture, craft, and landscape shaped how she sees.

Her paintings are about place, but also about presence. She is drawn to the quiet but intense power of nature: the way light falls across water, the way land holds memory, the way atmosphere can feel both tender and immense, scenes that stop you in their tracks.

Whitney works in oils inspired by the masters before her— and because she is committed to working as micro‑plastic free as possible in her materials and process.