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| I've been an active painter most of
my life, creating works in the realist tradition. I sometimes work
in plein air, but I prefer the solitude of my studio where I can
concentrate on combining elements from my photographs into an
interesting painting. Drawing and composition are of primary
importance to me, with color harmony following closely behind. I
was fortunate in having an outstanding high school art teacher and with
her help managed to win a four-year scholarship to the Ringling School
of Art in Sarasota, Florida. There I studied with the late Hilton
Leech, an outstanding watercolorist after whom the art center in
Sarasota was named. I'm a signature member of the Florida
Watercolor Society and the Texas Watercolor Society. My recent
work, primarily landscapes and portraits, has included oils, acrylics
and pastels, all of which I find endlessly challenging. My paintings have
been accepted into seven of the Top 100 shows for Arts for the Parks.
In the year 2000, I won the Region III award; in 2004, I won the Region
I award; and in 2006 my pastel painting, "One of the Fallen",
won the Grand Prize in the Arts for the Parks annual competition. |