Since early childhood, when I first began to write and illustrate stories and to construct houses of sticks and stones, art making has been the passion of my life.

With a BA, Cum Laude, in studio art from Hendrix College, while raising my two children I worked as a freelance graphic artist in Dallas and Little Rock, Arkansas. When asked how I balanced work and family, I wrote Rich in Time, worked with individuals and taught classes.

Moving my young family to NYC, I attended the Art Students League, pursued master’s studies at General Theological Seminary and accepted art commissions. For a small Manhattan fashion house I dressed Greenwich Village boutique windows and designed one-of-a-kind originals.

After my nest emptied, I took to the wilderness of the Ozark Highlands. Four years of solitude beside the Little Buffalo River were spent rambling, photographing, gardening and deep diving into the world of spirit. I painted what I found as though writing in my journal with brushes.

Back in community, I exhibited and marketed my work full time until assuming the role of Executive Director-Curator at artCentral in Carthage, Missouri. Here for almost a decade I poured my passion into my own art making and showing, penned a weekly Art Notes column, nurtured a summer art camp for youth and cultivated a creative space where artists could exhibit and thrive.

Today, while preparing for an encore career as an art therapy practitioner, I share a big, old arts-and-crafts home with my artist/musician husband, two energetic Australian shepherds and an elderly Whoodle. We love making art in our studios and sharing our artful house and gardens with our friends and family and art-loving passers-by.