About the Artist

I always loved to draw, but it was something that came in fits and starts and I never considered myself an artist.  I took an occasional art class but never really found them inspiring.  And as time went on, as the saying goes, "life got in the way".

But then, in the 90s, while living in the Washington, D.C. area, I took a life drawing class from Brockie Stevenson at the Corcoran Museum.  He encouraged me to enroll at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, and fortunately I took his advice.  I studied figurative art there with Priscilla Treacy, an accomplished artist and teacher, for three years.  I loved it.  I had found my thing – drawing people.  I rounded out my training in D.C. with courses at the Washington Studio School and the Smithsonian Institution.  After returning to Texas, I studied  in the Texas Tech University’s Masters in Art Education program.  By that time, making figurative art had become my passion.  I do experiment with other subjects, but I’m always drawn back to the figure in its endless variety. 

I have received many awards for my artwork, have been included in several Strokes of Genius, the Best of Drawing Books, was featured in Southwest Art magazine, and was a finalist in Drawing Magazine’s cover competition.  My drawings are in many private collections in the United States and abroad.