Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my site!  I am an artist living in a little town called Pinson, Alabama.  Pinson is about 30 miles outside Birmingham, Alabama.  I am a mother of 4 children ( 2 grown, 2 still at home) and a happy wife and artist.

I have called myself an artist almost all of my life.  One of my earliest memories is at about the age of 4.  My mother bought me a brand new beautiful box of 64 (!!!) crayons!  The box even had a sharpener on the side!  The smell...the sharp newness...the beauty of a lovely line on paper and I was hooked!  (All you artists know what I mean!)

It never occured to me to go to art school when I was young.  Art was something I just DID.  I guess it still is, although I do try a lot harder to learn proper techniques these days.  I am completely self-taught, choosing to learn from books and (like a sponge!) trying to soak up the expertise of any artist I admire and have the opportunity to come in contact with.

I have been completely unable to narrow down my art to any one specific medium.  I recently identified with 87 year old sculptor Ruth Duckworth on CBS Sunday Morning.  She said that when she went to art school she was asked, "Do you want to paint or draw or sculpt?"  To which she replied, "YES!  I want to paint and draw and sculpt!".  I tend to do a lot of different things depending on my mood.  I have made porcelain dolls for about 12 years, writing 10 articles for Doll Crafter and Costuming magazine.  I think I will always have a hand in dolls but lately I have been concentrating more on paintings and drawings.  In the past I have been fascinated with ACEOs (Art Cards Editions and Originals).  I love the challenge of creating a whole painting on a 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" surface.  Currently, though, I am painting on plywood (about 22 x 10 mostly) using a combination of acrylic and Genesis Oil.  I then print images of my paintings and make them into purses, sketchbook holders, cellphone holders, pendants, etc. I almost exclusively use imported batik fabrics, handmade origami fabric flowers and handmade buttons on my purses.  The pendants are handmade by me as well.  They begin as liquid porcelain and take many, many hours to create.

Again, thank you for taking the time to learn a little about me and for checking out my art!

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