About the Artist ...

     Born an army brat, I had traveled everywhere from the Midwest, through Europe, and back to Indiana by the age of 4.  Growing up, and even today, I have the most incredible parents.   I was encouraged to find those moments of creativity through exploration in art and music.  My Mom believed in me so much.  For example, she listened to a radio station and had me enter an art contest.  How pumped was I when I took home a huge Easter basket!  Several moments like those gave me a taste of what art was all about.

     Continuing my journey through college, I took a few classes in contemporary art and art history.  To my surprise, something jolted back to me from my younger years.  All those moments of drawing baseball players and panthers from a magazine revived in me a passion for art.  From trips to Austin galleries to gain inspiration, to throwing paint on cheap canvases I was hooked.  And then I started working...

     In my fourth year teaching, I found myself stricken with a strange ache in my jaw.  Trips to several doctor's left everyone, including me, confused and frustrated.  For almost a month I was almost immobile.  The art teacher at my school saw some of my attempts to paint, and he took me under his wing.  That summer, I was changed.  The grief that had become a tumor in my jaw was so painful that I had to find a distraction to my misery.  In treatment, before and after surgery, I created.  I put my heart into works that captured my thoughts and removed me from any moments of pain.  I had found my release.

     Now days are spent creating, experimenting, and studying any chance I get.  I live daily finding inspiration in everything I see.  Walking through life daily has taken a completely different view.  I'm surrounded by God's infinite creations, and they are my motivation to create.  Long after I'm gone, my art will still remain.  So I better get busy, right?