Hi, my name is Vicky Hamlin.  I live in Oakland, California, and have been painting since I was a kid.  I grew up in NYC where I got a BA in Painting at CCNY before anyone was interested in MFA's unless you wanted to teach.  I always painted, no matter what else was going on in my life.  I moved to SF, CA in the early 70's, and took various art classes where and when I could find them.  I take pictures too, of lots of things- of places I travel, the city, landscapes, of people and our daily and working lives.
 
I have worked in construction and related fields for about 30 years.  I work with a nonprofit organization called Tradeswomen, Inc. and each year we put out  a calendar of women working in the trades that I do much of the photography for.  I think that our working lives are under-represented as a subject in art, and that's a shame- what a source for gesture, texture, emotion, figures, faces, etc.  So here is my attempt to bring the workaday world into the light.  I hope these images strike a chord.  Thank you!