About Me

I bought my first canvas at a garage sale in Nashville, Tennessee in the mid 90’s.  My mom made me buy it.  It was an ugly 80’s painting that was 4’ x 4’.  She told me I could paint over it…and she was right. 

I didn’t pick up a paint brush until 2007 when I finally pulled out that canvas to paint.  I had never had a lesson, but I had a vision of what I wanted to see on the canvas.  I spent a semester abroad in Venice Italy in 1989.  Italy has been my muse ever since. So, my first painting on that 4’ x 4’ canvas was of a gondola approaching a point in the labyrinth canal system where it needed to make a choice of which way to go.  It chose left.  For me, that was choosing to move West from Nashville to settle in Denver in 2000.  I have never looked back.  Italy was my inspiration for my paintings the first couple of years until I began to experiment with a more modern twist. 

I love to paint large canvases…way too large to actually hang in my house, so I began to donate them each year to the Adaptive Spirit Silent Auction, an event that benefits the athletes of the U.S. Paralympic Ski and Nordic Teams. In 2018, I began to play with angular shapes.  First with a very large poly painting of Vail…and then I tried a low poly style with Winter Park…and I was hooked with this style of painting.  I am able to bring my vision of the mountain to life in triangular shapes.  I build it like a puzzle and it’s fun for me to see the mountains come to life piece by piece.