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 current project has kept me busy for months:
an MU Campus Map and a WV map 3.0!
The proceeds will support
the Cabell County Schools Foundation
to support the public education of children in our area.
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.
I sell my original work (acrylic, watercolor, and pastel paintings)
and reproductions of my work at shows and
in area gift shops, Wildflower Gift Gallery and Red Caboose.
Stay tuned!
