I keep looking to my hands. They are my favorite art tools. Are they beautiful? No. But maybe I can use them now and then to create beauty with my art.
About Me
I believe art should sing a song, tell a story. Each painting I begin is a new adventure and experiment for me. My work begins in a very personal way, where I scribble down my thoughts and feelings onto the canvas, my wishes and blessings for the potential collector. From there, things build up layer by layer, a long but rewarding process. I hope my art compels the viewer to pause and stare a bit, to find secrets and surprises in the layers there.
I am a mixed media artist born in Nashville, but recently located near the Tennessee River in north Alabama. Artistically, I am fascinated by many things…a tree’s meandering branches, the expressions of a human face, the negative spaces around the wading birds. I’m a bit in awe of interesting lines, shapes and layers. Those are the lenses through which I see the world. And so my art (everyone’s art really) is simply a pulling together of these lines, shapes and layers.
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To relax. To avoid putting pressure on myself to get things 'right'. To resist the pull to let others tell me what art should and shouldn't be and to gravitate towards what I enjoy creating over what I think I should be creating.
I worked at an ice cream shop and an amusement park through my young years. Upon graduating from college with a business degree, I worked in the corporate world for several years.
It isn't a hidden talent, but I do love to draw. It's a skill I've worked long and hard to hone and it's changed everything about my art. Learning to draw is learning to see. Art is all about seeing.