The artist left her native Pennsylvania after graduating from high school to study art history at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 she traveled to New England and continued studying art in the Boston area. Years later Brenda left the cold north to settle in the sunny south and moved to Louisiana. She eventually attended the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and in 1981 the Academy honored her with the "John Singer Sargent Award for Painting in all Mediums". For 30 years Brenda has established an art career in the New Orleans area painting street scenes, landscapes, portraits and caricatures. The artist's patrons include private individuals as well as corporations from all around the world. As she continues to create, the artist strives for excellence in her work with nature as the inspiration.