Welcome to my studio.
Take a seat. Tell me your story.
I started drawing about the time that I realized, after a few broken pencils, that my life never had to look just like everyone else.
As an artist, I work more like a writer than a painter. I see a life's worth of a story in a person's face among their eyes and nose.
I guess I always will.
I've loved to draw ever since I can remember. I never considered it work or a gift- it was the outpouring of my internal process, you might say. In fact, it still is. I'll never forget the day I cried when I saw the incredibly beautiful detail in a friend's pencil portrait and then my first drawing class with my beloved art teacher, Gail Smith.
In high school, I received a scholarship class the the Western Art Academy in Kerrville, Texas learning sculpture with Phil Bob Borman and oil painting with Glen Miles.
Although I graduated with a B.A. in Communications, I continued to develop my artistic style through my college years and illustrated my first books, Sorrow's Joy by Meara Kelly and Who's the Girl with the Red Dress On? by Betty McDonald Hicks.
In 2020, I went on to illustrate my first Children's books in association with Fire Sail Press including Levi and the Weeping Willow by Tammy Harborth Stanford and Cowboy Finds a Home by Brandi Wilt.
It seems that all those broken pencils pointed me toward the work that I always loved: illustrating stories.
This is a small part of my story- the opportunity to help you tell yours.
