Ms. Crabtree’s watercolor and pen and ink works place her within the heritage of Odilon Redon, and those artists who have dealt with their inner psychological visions and dream images in the last hundred years. These works are intricate in their handling of the pen and ink drawn images, and yet are counteracted with a free flowing use of watercolor which suggests the dream fantasies and imply the emotional state of the artist while working. For one, Franz Bader remarked at the quality of Ms. Crabtree’s work, feeling that they were indeed "fine visions of her inner self, and finely done works on paper.” 

Drawing in a sensitive awareness of nature’s details, Ms. Crabtree’s watercolors transform them into her private dream world – translating our world into linear form, texture, and shading. The artist also works in collage and assemblage, often large, major works on canvas. Her fantastic rich collages glisten and shine with a mystical flavor. 

Her main thrust has always been and will be watercolor, ink and collage. However, an experimental aside had once been computer graphics. CBS, Channel 9 Eye Witness News, taped and showed the artist and her watercolors for the six o'clock news. The Washington Post Magazine displayed her computer collages in its prominent "try it" column. Channel 10, Alexandria Cable TV, interviewed the artist live about her computer art. 

A former member of the Michigan and Washington Watercolor Societies and a former member of the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, she has shown her work in various Maryland exhibits. Many have enjoyed her work in several one-woman shows at the Paint Branch Unitarian Church in Adelphi, Maryland. In addition, she has shown at Mamori Gallery, in numerous Art League Gallery Shows at the "Factory", in a two person  show at the Touchstone Gallery, in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibit in Baltimore, Md., in the New Orleans National Watercolor Show, at the Spectrum Gallery in Washington, D.C., at the Roxx Gallery in Baltimore, Md., in Passageways Gallery in Riverdale, Md., in a two woman show in Slayton House Gallery in Columbia, Md., the American Cafe in Georgetown, and the CMT Co. in Canal Square- also in Georgetown. She received Honorable Mention  from the Easton Academy Arts Museum in Easton, Md. in the July 2000 Member Show, and she has won first prize at the Chesapeake College Regional Art Show for collage. Recently, she was accepted as a signature member artist of the Baltimore Watercolor Society - an honor obtained only by jury selection.