I am an abstract artist working in oils, acrylics and digital media. Nature, travel and the southwest USA are my inspirations. My art style uses abstraction, vivid color, texture and symbols.
To me abstraction is a way of seeing with mind and spirit - past forms and definitions - to essence, experience and connection. This is what I try to capture in my art.
My process is to create art in an intuitive manner, starting with color choices and an overall idea. I see my experiences come into each painting as it evolves and the meaning becomes clearer to me as it is completed.
A native of Oklahoma City, I graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma and North Carolina State University Graduate School of Design. I practiced Landscape Architecture for 26 years in Chicago and throughout the USA and Central America, while painting in my down time. Upon retirement I started exploring abstract painting full-time.
My family exposed me to creative pursuits and I have painted off and on throughout my life. My grandmother was an oil painter, my father a photographer, my mother a pianist.
My studio is on a lake in sunny Oklahoma City. My art is available at shows and galleries in the OKC area. My digital art is created from hand-painted work and is available online at the CFS Print Collection and through other retail and wholesale companies.
See current Galleries and Exhibits.
Education
B.S. cum laude, Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Central Oklahoma
Masters, Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University, School of Design
Exhibitions
2023-2024 The Studios at North Gallery, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
2023 Explore Show, In Your Eye Gallery, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
2022 This is Place, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Norman Oklahoma
2021 Print on Paseo, Paseo Arts Association, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
2020 Cracker Box Studio Gallery, Serendipity Market, Edmond Oklahoma
2019 Art Market Gallery, Home on the Range, Guthrie Oklahoma
2018 Texas Fine Artists Show, Marriott Gallery, Waco Texas
2018 Texas Fine Artists Show, Waco Winery, Waco Texas
2018 Images Show, Kerr Arts Center, Kerrville Texas
2018 Fredericksburg Theatre Summer Show, Die Künstler, Fredericksburg Texas
2018 Deep in the Heart of Texas Show, Fredericksburg Art Guild, Fredericksburg Texas
2016 Boquete Plein Air Painters Five Women Show, Boquete Gallery, Boquete Panamá
2015 Something Personal Show, Boquete ArtWorks, Boquete Gallery, Boquete Panamá
In Print
2022 Purple Heart painting, This is Place Magazine, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
2020 Horizon painting and Window painting, in the book - Home Anthology - an Antidote of Creative Expression, The Poetry Society of Texas, poetry and art created during Covid
2017 Hand of God painting, on the cover of the Book - In a Burst of Recycled Electrons
Press
2023 TurningArt Blog: Elevating the Office Experience, shows Distant and Strata paintings in the first image
Online
2021 Tide Pool painting appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, journal of writing inspired by visual art
In Collections
Private
International: London England, Montreal Canada, Lisbon Portugal, Boquete Panamá
USA: California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington
Corporate
Los Angeles CA, Englewood CO, Washington DC, Lexington MA, Oklahoma City OK, Bellevue WA
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