Tabby Ivy grew up a Southern California girl. Her education led her to a profession in healthcare where she was involved in the early years of Echocardiography, working as product and marketing manager for a diagnostic ultrasound company in Seattle, Washington. In 1991, she moved to Montana's Bitterroot Valley. After thirty-three years in Montana, she now lives in Carlton, Oregon.Her journey to creative expression started gradually and later in life. An avid black-and-white photographer, she completed the Rocky Mountain School of Photography's Summer Intensive Program in Missoula after moving to Montana. The tonal aspects of black-and-white photography still influence her work, informing her tonalist-leaning style of painting. A self-described autodidact as an artist, her ongoing creative curiosity and refinement of her unique style have brought her work recognition and collectors from across the country. An avid supporter of the Arts in Montana, she was a curator of the Hockaday Museum of Art's groundbreaking 2015 exhibition, "A Timeless Legacy, Women Artists of Glacier National Park." She won the Gamblin Award of Excellence for her painting, "The Golden Hour," at Dana Gallery's Icons of the West show in Missoula, Montana. She has been a featured artist in exhibitions throughout Montana and the US. She describes her work as “contemporary expressions of Nature’s beauty.” Her paintings often begin when a mood, scene, or thought breaks through the every day to spark an idea or callion. She relies on intuitive spontaneity, curiosity, and risk-taking to guide her through the painting process. Her work is not a literal depiction of a landscape, scene, or subject. She purposely strives for her paintings to be evocative and engaging while leaving a bit of mystery and interpretation for the viewer. In 2018, she began collaborating with Damon Falke, a US-born writer, and poet living in Norway. Their exhibition, Between Artists, Life in Paintings and Prose, opened in June 2022 at the Hockaday in Kalispell, Montana.