Windows, Acrylic, 24″ by 24″, August 2016

Heart and Soul, a Work in Progress, November 2016

      As an artist, I feel I have been taught in three ways.  One, growing up with a family with artists littered across it, experiencing oils, paints, drawing, ceramics, a variety of arts from a bunch of very different people that each taught me things in varying ways.  Second, the technical training through my undergrad experience, teaching me theory and techniques and the histories, the backbone of the arts that I was still learning to understand.

        Now, I have stepped away from undergrad, and am living on my own, and now the guidelines that I have learned by are distant as I walk my own path and find my third way.  I listen to the world around and learn from it.  I take direction and experience and emotion and feeling from the world around myself, letting my experiences help to create my body of artistic work, seeking to form connections between myself, the viewer, and the art itself.