Artist's Statement
Art has been the wellspring of my life beginning when I was four years of age. What a thrill to have my drawing displayed on a children's TV show! Creating became my impetus to study art, develop my skills and discover just what I'm capable of doing. My ideas come from observing people and places. As an artist, I view the world through discerning eyes. I look at people and visualize painting their expression or something unusual about them. Simple life events inspire me to capture a moment in everyday living. I have an unrelenting desire to portray what I see, seizing the light, color, movement, revealing a part of my inner self. I'm a true colorist as can be witnessed in my illustrations. I find the line in a life drawing intriguing, the lighting in a plein-air landscape a challenge and a portrait most compelling. While studying Children's Book Illustration at The Savannah College of Art and Design I renewed my inspiration to write again as I did for my college literary magazine. The character, Dilla Pops was reborn in my imagination. She began as a children's bedtime story character for my own children and grew from there.
ART EDUCATION/WORKSHOPS
Portraiture Workshop with world famous portrait artist, Daniel Greene, North Salem, NY
Poetry Workshop, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
Cape Cod Museum, private instruction painting under Robert Roark
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, painting with Rick Clayton
The Synergy of Art, Chatham, MA
Pace University, NY, BS concentration in art
Seton College, NY, AAS Art Major
Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, Children’s Book Illustration
Cultural Arts Program, Savannah, GA
The Reilly League of Artists, White Plains, NY, under Cesare Borgia
Life Drawing/NY, SC, MA
Famous Artist School, Westport, CT/scholarship
ART TEACHER
Hilton Head High School, SC,
Rockland Community College, NY
Grammar School Art, Westchester, Bronx, NY
Cathedral High School for Girls, Manhattan
GALLERIES/ EXHIBITS/ART AFFILIATIONS
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, COTUIT, MA
CHATHAM FINE ARTS CENTER, CHATHAM, MA
ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD
LARKIN GALLERY, INC, PROVINCETOWN, MA
POST OFFICE GALLERY, NORTH TRURO, MA
PALETTE FINE ART GALLERY, SANDWICH, MA
THE GALLERY, HARWICHPORT, MA
THE RED GALLERY, EASTHAM LIBRARY, EASTHAM, MA
Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators
The Portrait Society of America
Provincetown Art Association
Fraser Art Gallery, HHI, SC
Self Family Art Center, HHI, SC
Sea Pines Art Center, HHI, SC
Savannah Art Association Gallery, GA
Society of Bluffton Artists, SC
Ragged Sailor Gallery, Block Island, RI
Choate House, Pace University Gallery, NY
Seton College Gallery, NY
Archdiocese of NY/ Best of Show, Manhattan
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