I have always been inspired by beauty, color and learning.

After formal art instruction at the University of St. Thomas in Houston - studying drawing and art history - I continued with various other venues and private instruction exploring many forms of creative expression.  Ten years ago I moved to Gulfport, MS, and after attending a particularly inspiring workshop by Frank Janca, focused on painting in oil. I have continued to study with Frank and to learn from the great masters of oil painting and am also inspired by many great present-day artists.

My love of flowers results in many different still life subjects. When my garden is full of roses, I try to capture the fragile color and translucency of the old rose varieties but also enjoy the boldness and brilliance of sunflowers.  To me all flowers are miracles and recording forever that fleeting moment of beauty is always an inspiring challenge.

As an artist, my goal is to produce work of the highest caliber based on the traditions of great artists of the past, while developing my own concepts and ideas.  I am passionately involved in every moment of the process striving to capture the beautiful glowing light and produce my vision of the finished painting. The visual feast that is life is always my inspiration.

I have participated in numerous local and regional exhibitions and was part of a show at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art that traveled to Sausalito, CA, juried by the Fingerhut Museum in Sausalito.  In May, 2008, my one-artist show was part of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra’s “Estate of the Arts Designer Showhouse”.  I am a regional director for The National Museum for Women in the Arts; part of a Realist Painting Group at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS (interrupted by Katrina but resumed in the spring of 2008); a member of Gallery 782, Biloxi, MS, an Associate Member of Oil Painters of America. and participate in various other civic and artistic organizations.