Ever since I can remember I have been in love with color.  It makes the world a beautiful and even mysterious place to live in.  I remember the hot summer days as a kid with my crayons and coloring books, learning how to color inside the lines, and when I got in trouble for finger painting in preschool just because I wanted to know what the paint would feel like on my hands.  I remember the joy and accomplishment I felt when I learned how to draw a cartoon character by looking off of a picture book.    

I really feel like I was meant to be an artist.  Taking most of my inspiration from the people and places that surround me, I observe and translate it into an image that represents the way I see it.  I especially find the human face, and all of its specifications that make each person so special and unique, the most intriguing subject to attempt.  I love the challenge of a portrait and how the slightest angle, color, texture, or line can change the way a person looks and also makes them who they are.

Even though all of my pre-college life was focused on music, band and orchestra, I found myself wanting to pursue what I felt was always inside of me, waiting to blossom.  Art allowed me to express a part of myself that I wasn't able to through my flute or bassoon.  I quickly discovered a love for painting and I began to find my path in life.  After a lot of hard work, disappointments and triumphs, I graduated from Harding University in 2008 with a degree in Painting.  I am now working as a freelance artist in Arizona with my husband who is a computer software engineer.  We love the Arizona heat and the cloudless, blue skies.  There has never been anything more beautiful than those western sunsets and I plan to see plenty of them.