Erika grew up in a small town in Southern California. Exploring the hills, fields and washes was a favorite past time and ingrained in her a love of the outside world. She studied art at the University of Redlands and also at San Francisco State University, where she earned a BA in Industrial Arts.  She has trained in printmaking, photography, encaustic processes, and painting.

Currently working in Sausalito, California she remains drawn to the natural world; specifically interested in bio-diversity, she employs elements of abstraction in order to capture the patterns and rythyms that exist all around us, even on the smallest patch of ground.