Bio

My life as an artist began when my sixth-grade teacher entered one of my art works in a citywide art contest. As one of 30 winners, I received a six-year scholarship to Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts School. Making art had always been a natural part of who I was, but that was when awareness that being an artist was “a thing” entered my consciousness. As an adult, I became an art teacher and fell in love with the uninhibited expressive style of children’s art which has influenced my work.

Dreams have long been a guiding force in my life. This led to an interest in psychology and earning a master’s degree in art therapy. While professionally working with others on their creative paths, I spent seven years postgraduate taking studio art classes at the Glassell School in Houston. After another lifetime of writing children’s books, I’ve returned to my first and deepest love, living my lifelong dream of painting full time.

Currently I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico with my husband Glen and thoroughly enjoy living in a place where Art Spirit flourishes.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My current work is inspired by the mystery of what’s behind the curtain of our everyday reality. I’ve kept an illustrated dream journal for most of my adult life. Once I dreamed I was late going back into a theater for the third act and the door was locked. However, the door to the backstage area was open. There, the actors relaxed on couches, while reflections of themselves were performing on stage. Amazed, I told them I always thought actors were actually on the stage. “That’s how it used to be,” one replied. “The action is really happening back here.”

Scientists tell us our dreams come from residues of our daily experience, but is that always true? Where do new ideas some from? How does something come from nothing? What’s going on behind the curtain?

I once read that Aborigines believe that everything that exists now, in the past, or in the future exists all at once in Dreamtime, and we dream them down to our reality.

I’m going with that for now.

THEATER PAINTING from dream journal