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Growing up as an only child, drawing was my play and constant activity. My kindergarten teacher was amazed at my early ability and tried to get my work published in a book of elementary art. I turned to dance during adolescence but decided I wanted to pursue art as a lifelong career. After receiving a B.F.A. degree in 1992, I began a career in graphic design and digital illustration. I worked for a textbook production company for eight years doing digital illustrations. I learned valuable skills while working solely on the computer but also desired more personal art endeavors. Earning a M.F.A. degree in 2000 marked the beginning of a journey to more imaginative art making. In 2003, I began painting full time and do work that was truly my own. I had a large one-person show of my intuitive, dream-like paintings at the Santa Fe Gallery in 2007. Currently, I am studying the work of my favorite masters: Klimt, Picasso, Klee and Kandinsky, to glean their knowledge of line, shape and pattern in paintings. I am especially interested in their transitional periods when they were moving from realism to abstraction. I am working towards complex abstraction inspired by organic forms. But my colors are subjective and the composition is secondary to provide order for the freely painted colors. Now after more than thirty years and two children of my own, painting is again my play and, as much as possible, constant activity.
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2008 First Place in the Garden Category of the Melrose Paint the Town Green Event 2006 Gold Addy for an interior magazine illustration from the Advertising Federation of the Roanoke Valley (AFRV) 2006 Award of Merit at the Haile Village Art Show 2005 Award of Honor at the Art at the Oaks Show 2003 Best of Show Award for the Gainesville Fine Art Association Members’ Winter Show 2003 Edith Moore Portrait Award for the Gainesville Fine Art Association Members’ Winter Show 2000 Silver Addy for entertainment advertising from the AFRV 1999 Award of Excellence for the Radford University Art Museum’s Student Juried Exhibition 1999 Gold Citation for illustration from the AFRV 1999 Silver Citation for electronic/ digital media from the AFRV 1992 Art Achievement Award, James Madison University |