BIOGRAPHY

. A painting should have an emotional impact on the viewer; it should speak up for itself. If a painting doesn’t evoke some type of emotion, I don’t care how technically perfect a painting is to me it is not art. Personally, I also prefer my art to say something positive. We owe it to ourselves not to spread gloom and despair all over everyone! There is enough of that out in the world without artists celebrating it! I am a self-taught artist. I concentrate on the interconnected relationship between man and nature, and the strong bond between humans and animals. Simple images of everyday life (past and present), pets, and animals dominate my representational art. I do abstracts because they are fun and I also have a prolific body of Fantasy and Science Fiction art. I have won awards for my abstracts, pet portraits and historical scenes. “Transitions” created in 2004 was accepted by the Fresno Rotary Club as a design for a freeway mural. It was installed at Freeway 168 and Bullard off-ramp in Clovis California on May 30, 2009.I work out of my home. I have a husband of 35 years who takes me to beautiful places to paint while he pans for gold, a son who writes juvenile fiction, and 4