Though I’d always been crafty, I only began to take myself seriously as an artist once the children were out of the house.
I eased into art through my crafts. My first works were soft sculpture dolls decorated with shells, beads, wires and anything else that helped tell the story of my little women.
I played with mosaics incorporating glass tiles, broken pottery shards, found objects and covered a retaining wall in our backyard with a eight-foot mural and added bands of color in our bathrooms.
I moved on to embellished gourds where I learned about paints and dyes, weaving with natural straws and grasses and earned a membership in Lafayette Gallery.
Through Shadelands, I began taking abstract painting classes with Tesia Blackburn and found my passion.
Abstract painting allows me to play, to splash, to layer, to dribble, to create layer upon layer of color and texture with paint, pencil and papers.
Abstracts are still a wonderous discovery for me. My starting point seldom leads directly to my final stroke. And if I’m not happy with the results, I just continue to play until I’m satisfied.
