"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
Groucho Marx
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Artistic expression has always been a passion in my life. Even as a small child the coloring books, colors in the big box' or the big pan of watercolors were never sufficient. I am the product of generations of artist's and lovers of the arts, so fortunately my talents were nurtured by her family and surroundings. I found and began instruction at about age 10, by bartering mother's-helper services with an artist friend of the family. Since, I have studied art in Michigan, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Texas where I now resides. I am currently a member of the National Watercolor Society NWS, Louisiana Watercolor Society LWS, Visual Arts Alliance VAA, and an Elite Signature Member of The Watercolor Art Society - Houston WAS-H. My works have been included in and been honored with numerous awards in local, national, and international shows, exhibitions and galleries.
As a teen art museum rat, artworks that grabbed my eye and spirit from a distance, and continued to surprise and delight me the closer I came, were the most inspiring. That quality, and expressing the initial inspiration; the core of what seized my mind and heart about the subject or feeling always remain the primary focus of my drawings and paintings. With that firmly established in my mind and heart, I develop my concept, composition, and I chooses my instruments and palette. Those stages of my creative process can form rapidly, while some works simmer for a while. Once those are established, I am free to work in an unconscious and intuitive manner. The subjects and compositions of my paintings are recognizable, yet never slavish to realism. I always strive to take the viewer of my works on an adventure with me; an adventure of the heart, mind and spirit.
