Travel is a great
classroom. Traveling around America and Europe has a powerful influence,
helping me understand and see how different atmospheres combined
with new surroundings, create fantastic changing color palettes.
I can almost “feel” colors and am inspired to translate
this sensation of another place to canvas.
Diving and sailing around the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, and Hawaii,
has brought a parade of bright fluorescent colors of tropical fish,
corals, and plants to my ever-growing perception of color.
I hope my paintings take you to the places of their inspiration.
I grew up along the Florida Gulf Coast and now live near the Blue
Ridge Mountains in central Virginia with my husband, our Yellow Lab
George and Lollypop our cat.
Juried shows:
2008 Nelson Gallery’s Annual Juried Show; Lexington, Virginia
2008 Bath County Art Show; Hot Springs, Virginia, Award Choice Category
Oil
2008 VMRC’s Fifth Annual Juried Art Exhibition; Harrisonburg,
Virginia
2008 Art at the Mill, Juried Gallery Show, Burwell-Morgan Mill, Virginia
2008 Virginia House of Delegates: Richmond, Virginia
2008 International Miniature Art Show; Nags Head, North Carolina
2008 Art on the Green; Lexington, Virginia, Honor of Distinction Category:
Oil Landscape: Judged by Robert Stuart
2007 Shenandoah Valley Art Center Juried Members Show; Waynesboro,
Virginia; Second Place: Oil
2007 Bath County Art Show; Hot Springs, Virginia
2007 Shenandoah Valley Art Center; Waynesboro, Virginia
2007 Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, Virginia
2002-2006 Art at the Mill, Gallery Show; Burwell-Morgan Mill, Virginia
2002-2004 International Miniature Art Show; Nags Head, North Carolina
2003 Aldie Mill, Gallery Show; Aldie, Virginia
2003 Virginia House of Delegates; Richmond, Virginia
2001, 2002 Paintings from the Piedmont, McGuffy Art Center; Charlottesville,
Virginia
Solo shows:
2008 CoArt Gallery, Staunton, Virginia
2002 Westminster Canterbury; Charlottesville, Virginia
Gallery Shows:
2007 Beverly Street Gallery; Staunton, Virginia
2007 CoArt Gallery; Staunton, Virginia
2005 Sage Moon Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
2003 Beverly Street Gallery; Staunton, Virginia
2003 Second Street Gallery; Charlottesville, Virginia
2002 McGuffy Art Center; Charlottesville, Virginia
Honors and Awards
2008 Bath County Art Show; Hot Springs, Virginia, Award Choice Category
Oil
2008 Art on the Green; Lexington, Virginia, Honor of Distinction Category:
Oil Landscape: Judged Robert Stuart
2007 Shenandoah Valley Art Center Juried Members Show; Waynesboro,
Virginia; Second Place: Oil
2007 Bath County Art Show; Hot Springs, Virginia, Judges Choice Award;
Category Oil
Professional Affiliations
Oil Painters of America
Beverly Street Studio School
Artist member CoArt Gallery, Staunton Virginia
BozArt Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Shenandoah Valley Arts Center
