I’ve always enjoyed being creative,
and I’ve always wanted to be an artist.
Since I didn’t have the confidence to tackle an art career,
I became a school teacher.
As it happens, teaching children
presents innumerable opportunities
to be creative,
and I did that for 32 years…
and honestly…
I absolutely loved it.
But the time came (in 2012)
to follow my dream.
I quit teaching to develop an art career.
In 2016 I wrote a blog,
about the different kinds of art I had created.
During COVID shutdown in 2020 I held the
in my yard, and created an on-line auction to sell them all.
In January 2021 I started
to promote love, learning, tourism, and creativity in my home state,
Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.
In March of 2022, I had the
of 20 plant paintings in acrylic and watercolor
at Patti Del Checcola’s 3rd Ave Art Gallery
to support Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion.
After almost two years of no art shows,
in December 2023, I began working on my next exhibition:
“Places We Love, the Best Part’s Inside”.
The show was 20 pastel paintings of businesses from an inside perspective
in Huntington and Barboursville…
the opening reception was FABULOUS, and
The Huntington Children’s Museum was the beneficiary.
My project in 2025 was a blast:
painting an MU Campus Map AND a WV map 3.0!
From the images of my paintings,
I had prints, puzzles, and blankets made, and
I made pillows and Campus Cutouts.
And I created two Puzzle Competitions.
The profits have been donated to
the Cabell County Schools Foundation
to support the public education of children in our area.
In addition to raising money for the CCS Foundation,
I have returned to education in a number of ways:
I’m involved with WV Read Aloud,
I’m a member of the Cabell County Board of Education.
My Summer 2026 Floral Collection
was created to benefit
the Cabell County Schools Foundation.
I sell my original work (acrylic, watercolor, and pastel paintings)
and reproductions of my work at shows,
gift shops, like Wildflower Gift Gallery and Red Caboose.
and on this website.
Stay tuned!
