Exhibited at:

Ft. Worth Community Arts Center TAC Small Works Show. Dec. 1, 2017-Jan. 13, 2018

Paint & Photograph Rowlett. Nov. 18, 2017-Mar. 16, 2018

VAST Arts 12th Annual 125-Mile Visual Arts Exhibition, Gough Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX. Jan. 13-Feb. 24, 2018

Peach Festival Art Show, Doss Heritage Cultural Center, Weatherford, TX July 14-27, 2018 (First Place)

UNT on the Square, Denton, TX July 24-Aug 15, 2018

Merging Visions XI, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX June 7-Sept 14, 2019

Merging Visions XII, Gough Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX Aug 6-Sept 25, 2020

Merging Visions XIII, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX, June 26-Sept 16, 2022

Black & White Group Exhibition, RTown Art Gallery, Grapevine, TX, Oct 1-Oct 31, 2023

VAST Arts 17th Annual 175-Mile Exhibition, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX Dec 8-Feb 17, 2024

About

Color and the wonder of creation are the motivating forces behind my art, as well as getting close up or unique views of the world around me. A native Texan, I grew up in a small farming community surrounded by miles and miles of farmland where color came around only once a year. When the sandstorms rolled in, even the skies were brown, and the dust and sand would blanket everything with a sameness that dulled the senses. This is why I love, and am passionate about color.

When I got my first camera, I fell in love with the macro lens. The world exploded in that lens in wonder and detail. The more I explored photography, then the artistry behind photo art, the more intrigued I became with all the possibilities. It became a journey of fascination, dedication, and thrill that I hope comes across to you in my images. I love it all--macro, landscape, quirky, black and white--and my style is eclectic and exploratory.

I have a new love and endeavor—encaustic painting, which I have studied and practiced now for a number of years. Whereas photography and digital art were technology driven, encaustic is like working in a chemistry lab. As each layer of wax is applied, it must be fused to the previous one using heat with a torch or a heat gun. The heart is on the art while the brain is monitoring the logistics, so that I am completely immersed and lost in both the process and the result. The beauty of encaustic is working with natural materials—even the smell of the beeswax and resin is like walking in the woods, giving me an intense awareness that while I may be portraying an element of nature or an abstraction of it, creation itself is providing me the tools with which to work. It’s like a great gift exchange, and the variety of surface result can flow from luminous to heavily textured, making for intriguing contrasts. Scraping and subtraction can also be a key part of the process, revealing history and layers in the piece.

I am still a Texan, now residing in Grapevine with my husband and a little band of animals that keeps me company while I work.

Photo Credit: Austin Moon