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.
In 2016 I wrote a blog,
about the different kinds of art I had created.
During COVID shutdown in 2020 I painted 30 florals,
held the Summer Art Show 2020 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 an art show
of 20 acrylics and watercolors of plants
at Patti Del Checcola’s 3rd Ave Art Gallery
to support Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion.
I sell my original work (acrylic, watercolor, and pastel paintings)
and reproductions of my work
in area gift shops, Wildflower Gift Gallery and Red Caboose.