About the Artist
Artist's Statement
There’s a kind of alchemy that happens with painting. The artist sees their subject and interprets it through their own thoughts and perceptions. The painter believes their vision is revealed with every brushstroke; that is certainly their intent. And yet the ultimate viewer can see the same painting in quite another way, sometimes reading an altogether different message, one that creates a completely different set of emotional responses.
Neither painter nor viewer is wrong; what each sees is true and lies there within the brushstrokes. Thus a 17th century artist may think he painted a morality lesson; but his 21st century viewer might see a crystalline vision of a golden moment in time, a celebration of the beauty that light confers on the ordinary.
My truth becomes transformed to yours. Alchemy.
What could be more magical?
About Me...
I’m an oil painter who usually paints a la prima (in one session) whether my subject is a landscape, still life or a figure. In my paintings, I enjoy exploring the patterns that light creates, light that can color a hand the same hue as the skirt on which its rests or by its absence, create shadows to hide a different reality.
Working from life in both landscape and figure is my joy. I am lucky to live in Middle Tennessee, where extraordinary subjects wait around every corner.
I am presently a member of The Chestnut Group, Plein Air Painters for the Land and am a signature member of Women Painters of the West (WAOW) and an elected artist member of the American Artists Professional League.
I have paintings in the collections of the Tennessee State Museum and in the Dunnegan Gallery of Art in Bolivar, Missouri.
Selected Juried Exhibits and Awards
Viewpoint 47
2015 National Juried Art Competition
Eisele Gallery of Fine Art
Cincinnati, Ohio
Best of Show
Award Judge Robert Hagberg
Viewpoint 50
2018 National Juried Art Competition
Greenwich House Gallery
Cincinnati, Ohio
American Impressionist Society
17th AnnualNational Juried Exhibition 2016
Howard/Mandville Gallery
Kirkland, Washington
90th Grand National Exhibition
American Artists Professional League, 2018
The Salmagundi Club
New York, NY
Allied Artists of America
100th Annual Juried Exhibit, 2013
National Arts Club NYC
The Best of America
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS)
2012, 2013 and 2017
Honorable Mention in 2012
First Online Exhibit of NOAPS in 2013
Fall Online Exhibit of NOAPS in 2013
Spring Online International Exhibit of NOAPS in 2016
Spring Online International Exhibit of NOAPS in 2017
Award of Merit in 2013
Award of Excellence in 2017
Laumiester Fine Art Competition 2013
Juried by Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur
Laumiester Fine Art Competition 2015
Juried by Stuart Johnson, owner of Settlers West Gallery
Laumiester Fine Art Competition 2016
Juried by Mark Boedges
Laumiester Fine Art Competition 2017
Juried by Calvin Laing
Bennington Center, Bennington, Vermont
77th National Midyear Show, 2013
Butler Institute of American Art
Juried by Thomas McNickle and Jerald Melberg
80th National Midyear Show, 2016
Butler Institute of American Art
Juried by John Vanco, director and chief curator of the Erie Art Museum
38th Annual Juried Painting and Sculpture Exhibition for Non-Members, 2016
The Salmagundi Club
New York, NY
2018 Annual Painting, Sculpture, & Graphics Open Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club
New York, NY
Hilton Head National Biennale, 2015 and 2017
Art of Coastal Carolina
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Honorable Mention in 2015
CCAN 2018
Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Competition
Abilene, TX
PAC National Open Juried Exhibition, 2018
Providence Art Club
Providence, RI
11th Biennial National Art Exhibition, 2018
Visual Arts Center
Punta Gorda, FL
Juror Steven J. Levin
Best and Brightest
Scottsdale Artists School
Scottsdale. Arizona
2012, 2013 and 2014
Honorable Mention in 2013
Women Artists of the West (WAOW)
National Exhibition
2015, 2016 and 2017
Richeson75
International Small Works Show
Finalist 2012
Women Painters of the Southeast (WPSE)
Juried Members Exhibit & Sale
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Cumberland Society
National Juried Exhibit
2013
Central South National Juried Exhibit
2012, 2009, 2006
Randy Higbee 6 Squared Exhibit
Costa Mesa, California
Spring and Winter 2012