Basic Information

• About me

  I respond to the world and resonate with life around me by way of my senses and emotions. A beautiful sunset or a mother comforting her child can bring me to tears; therefore, my art results from seeing something that moves my soul. I usually take a photograph of the subject for drawing purposes and then attempt to make the scene even more beautiful than it was in life. No subject is off limits—landscapes to nudes, still lifes to personal remembrances such as my son giving his newborn daughter her first kiss. Sometimes my work is realistic, but many times I let my imagination change what my eye has seen. My nudes, which I call bodyscapes, result from using a photo of a nude, but then changing the hues from traditional skin tones to those which morph into a colorful mountainscape, for example. Since I am a sensual person, I embrace many artistic disciplines—glass bead making, jewelry design, fiber arts—and in each instance let the materials and the ideas take hold of sight, touch, hearing, and even smell so that I can give full reign to my intuition.

• Resume

  I grew up in the small town of Plain Dealing, LA, and expressed myself creatively, from the time I could talk, through vocal music and dance. My mother was a talented singer and artist who sewed, crocheted, knitted, did calligraphy, and painted. I loved to watch her create and learned much from her. Art was not offered in our small school and, when I entered college, I was told that I had to major in something "more practical" than art or musical theater.
  Marriage and children seemed to take all my energy for many years and it wasn't until I was 42 and divorced, that I embraced my creative urges again, and began oil painting lessons with Bethia Bundrick Wedeberg. I later began acrylic classes with Robin Clawson, with whom I still study today. I have studied glass bead making at the John C. Campbell Folk Art Center in North Carolina, silver clay design and copper etching with Sheri Haab in Las Vegas, and felting with Catherine Hart in Santa Fe.
  I had a single artist exhibit at Columbia Cafe in 2008, was part of a juried exhibit, "Art a la Carte" at Artspace, in 2009, a group exhibit at Karpeles Museum, May, 2011, and a 3 woman exhibit, "Trio" at Karpeles. I have contributed my work to non-profit organizations in Shreveport, Denver, Dallas and New Orleans. My paintings can be found in homes in Denver, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, Nashville, Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans and Shreveport.