Resumé

As an artist I have been inspired by the energy of color and its ability to affect us on emotional, physical and spiritual levels.  Often we are unable to express why we react to certain colors but only know that they reach us on an unspoken, unconscious level.  It is the joy and power of color that I hope to express in my paintings.  Throughout my professional life, I have been involved in many forms of the healing arts. Whether as a therapist, musician, acupuncturist and glass or fiber worker I have always been an artist, only the media has changed.  When I was a child, I was fascinated with texture and color in fabric and jewelry.  Many of my childhood memories are of my father, also an artist and musician, in Taos, New Mexico and later in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  He taught me to play with texture and color, and to embrace the uncertainty that comes with each new media chosen.   As one of the first glass beadmakers in Texas I specialized in lampworked beads and jewelry.  I was a featured artist at Neiman Marcus for their 70th Anniversary, showed in juried art fairs and galleries across Texas and the Southwest, and was featured on the cover of Jewelrycrafts magazine multiple times.   I expressed my love of color and shape in my glasswork; now I feel I have found a more expansive, challenging medium to express the evocative qualities of strong colors.  Acrylics are an exciting medium because they can be as transparent as watercolor or applied as thickly as oil paints.  I often work back into my paintings with vine charcoal, colored pencil or other media to delineate and add emphasis to shape and areas of color.  My paintings are built of colorful layers, like our lives, joyfully celebrating the present while giving glimpses of the past.

Education:

BA in Psychology, UT Austin

Master of Education, TSU

Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, AOMA

Teaching:

Southwest Center for Arts and Crafts, San Antonio, Texas

Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas

Recursos, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

Galleries:

Eyes of Texas Gallery, San Marcos, Texas

 

Shows:

Art at First, 1st Presbyterian Church, San Marcos, Texas,   March 2005

Healer's Art Show, San Marcos, TX ,   June 2005

 

Teachers:

Linda Hammond

Mary Jo Harding

 

Mentors:

Maxine Price

Dena Wenmohs

 

Influential Workshops:

Helen Gwinn

Alberto Mijangos

Arne Westerman

Pat San Souci