I’ve always loved art. My home is full of art. I know you can’t eat it or wear it and it doesn’t keep you warm in the snow but art, the appreciation of it, the creation of it… feels as necessary and elemental to me as sleeping and breathing.
Some of my earliest childhood memories are from visiting the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Each year I would stare in awe at the colors, strokes, and images of the Masters and beg my parents for another poster to plaster to my already art covered walls. Matisse was my favorite. He still is. The vibrant use of color and fabric, models, and the Mediterranean backdrop transported me to somewhere exotic before I knew what exotic was. I pored over art books as a child until I found myself an Art History major in college.
At the University of Kentucky I continued to paint and study art history. After college, I worked at The Speed Art Museum for five years, putting some of my love and knowledge to work. During those years, before I had children, I began to collect art as I traveled. I particularly loved a Savannah artist who would do bold, colorful images of the marshes and trees. I am still impacted by her compositions.
When I paint, the time melts away and my art responds to the joy I feel. The common threads in my work are often water, boats and marshes, although I have also broadened my work to include portraits, animals, homes and anything that catches my fancy. Still, it is the light, reflection, and the color of objects that moves me. In more recent years, the landscapes come from imagination rather than location, with joy and freedom as the North star of inspiration.
Some of my earliest childhood memories are from visiting the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Each year I would stare in awe at the colors, strokes, and images of the Masters and beg my parents for another poster to plaster to my already art covered walls. Matisse was my favorite. He still is. The vibrant use of color and fabric, models, and the Mediterranean backdrop transported me to somewhere exotic before I knew what exotic was. I pored over art books as a child until I found myself an Art History major in college.
At the University of Kentucky I continued to paint and study art history. After college, I worked at The Speed Art Museum for five years, putting some of my love and knowledge to work. During those years, before I had children, I began to collect art as I traveled. I particularly loved a Savannah artist who would do bold, colorful images of the marshes and trees. I am still impacted by her compositions.
When I paint, the time melts away and my art responds to the joy I feel. The common threads in my work are often water, boats and marshes, although I have also broadened my work to include portraits, animals, homes and anything that catches my fancy. Still, it is the light, reflection, and the color of objects that moves me. In more recent years, the landscapes come from imagination rather than location, with joy and freedom as the North star of inspiration.
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