About
My journey began studying at the Art League under the tutelage of great artists like Wolf Kahn. I then ventured out into the world to discover the intersection of life, nature, and art.
The adventure began in Abique, New Mexico near Georgia O’Keefe’s ranch where I spent the summer on a quest to understand color. The teal, purple, sage, and tan of the desert taught me how to recognize what is truly important as I painted the beauty of nature in the quite moments.
I then dove into truly understanding the many textures of nature as I painted beaches, forests, mountains, and fields. A thirty-year (and counting) journey that has taken me all through the United States and the numerous meanings of the seasons. I felt the comfort of a warm sweater as you hike through the mountains in autumn as I illustrated the change of the season. I embraced the calming of the snow fall in winter as I filled my canvasses with wintery scenes. I experienced the joy of the first bloom in spring as I set up my canvass to plein air paint among the flowers. I reveled in the relaxation of sun-filled beach days of summer as I sketched out seascapes.
Three years ago, I was awarded a grant to paint in the French countryside at Chateau Orquevaux. The Colza fields that surrounded the village created a sea of yellow that stretched out into the horizon. I found harmony. The vibrant flowers were in perfect union with the rustic homes and a toast of champaign in the afternoon.
I now consider the different perspectives of what surrounds us as I trace out a single line that will create a human form while teaching Contemporary Figure Drawings at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center and as I add drama through the movement of water while painting at my studio on Lake Lanier.
“I paint who I am and that changes by the hour. I am not one painter or another but many at any given time.”
Resent One Person Shows
2025 February "The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From...." The Vault, Gainesville
2024 August 13 "Introductions" Gallery on the Square, Gainesville, GA
2023 August 17-Oct 4 "A Moment in Time" Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
2022 August 4-30 "Summer Wind" Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson NJ
2022 July 2-29 "Coastal Collection" The Studio Gallery, Darien, GA
2021 August - "New Inverness, Life and Legacy on the Altamaha River", Reinike Gallery, Atlanta GA
2019 April - "American Artists at Chateau Orquevaux" Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson NJ
2018 September 16-November 1 "French Connections" Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 May 6- June 5 "Passages" Beauregard Gallery, Rumson NJ
MA and BS from the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Post grad at the Art League, VA and Ghost Ranch, Abiqui, New Mexico.
Workshops with Wolf Kahn and Albert Handell
Public Collections
Chateau Orquevaux, France
Brenau University, Gainesville, GA
Bob and Red Buisson International Art Collection, with a painting that won First Place, as judged by Alexandra Skliris curator of the High Museum,of Art, Atlanta, GA
Art Curator - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Philip Masters Intersal Headquarters - Explorer/Discovered Black Beards Boat. Presented at Awards Ceremony NYC
USTA United States Tennis Association - National Headquarters in Atlanta, GA
Kevin Costner’s movie, “Draft Days”
"Hawaii 5-0" Set Design
"Sticky Notes" Set design
CBS “Playing House” Decorating Show
Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation – Tulsa, OKPrivate/Public Collections