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                                                 unraveling a mystery

      She began, (as most do who are involved in the visual arts) spending countless hours in her room as a young girl, drawing, painting, collaging, making sculptures out of found treasures and feeling moved by this time making things. It became her respite, and her way to share all that was spilling forth. 

       In school it was in art classes that she felt most competent. Eventually she was seen off to college by an art teacher who gave her a box of oil paints with brushes.  It was a science school, not a school that emphasized the visual arts, therefore she got to play a huge part in shaping her education.  Four years were spent with this focus at Earlham College to end graduating with a BA  major in Fine Arts: Oil painting. The paintings created there were a reaction to not being able to find satisfying images anywhere. She looked to other artwork to be inspired, wanting to satiate some visual longing, but alas none were to be found. So, she desperately started painting what she wanted to see. This created "man and Woman At Odds",  "Daydream", and "Sky Ripple". Two Assignments in school led to a greater interest in certain subject matter..."Italian Icon Painting " was from an assignment to reproduce an old painting...This grew the interest in Renaissance technique. It's focus on layering and light, specifically. The other assignment was to create an inner self-portait. That is where it was realized, the passion for attempting to express, in images, the inner life of man/woman. "Transformation In Love" was one of three pieces of her graduating Thesis.

     For the next few years she taught painting to kids ages 10-18, while raising her little one, and  started a new era of her painting adventure. She practiced portraiture while studying the nuances of the classical rennaissance painters. All of this,  a segway into her next body of work, which is intended to express visually an exploration into the inner evolution of Man/Woman.  

         As she continues to slowly practice and build a body of work she is busy homeschooling her two children, while joining the SLOW FOOD movement, and learning to grow her own food. These gardening efforts will bring the world of plants more intimately to her canvas.

  Exhibitions:

   Women's Art Show  - Women's Center -  Earlham College  1997

   Numerous Art House Art Shows - Earlham College  1994-1998

   Bartel Warehouse Art Party -  Richmond, IN  1998

   Private Collection - TN - 1998

   Leed's Gallery - Earlham College  1998

   Women's Art Show - Reitz Union Gallery -University of FL - Gainesville, FL  1999

    Emiliano's - Gainesville, FL  1999

   Horseshoe Gallery - Hughes, AR  2003

   Private Collection -Gainesville, FL- 2003

   Private  Collection - Brooklyn , NY 2005

    Private Collection -  Melrose, FL  2007