“Born in the beautiful Midwest, I have treasured the outdoors with the ever changing seasons, riding my beloved Quarter horses, caring for my Bee’s and garden, my funny chickens, cooking and decorating, fly fishing, antiquing, traveling, creating, painting and caring for my precious grand babies all five of them! I try to stay curious about our world and determined to keep my childhood wonderment. All of this shapes my imaginations to create fun compositions with emotion with a story. I have had the great honor of graduating from Mastery program from Milan Art institute. My artistic journey was deeply shaped through graduating from the Institute, where I refined my voice as an Oil Painter and learned to balance realism with expressive abstraction. I have had the honor of studying under the incredible British Artist, Lizzie Black who is based out of Mousehole, England. Lizzie expanded my technical skills in Still life helping me understand how to capture light, shadow and movement. I studied at Clark State University in Fine Art. This was a gift as, I immediately fell in love with Fine Art History, this gave me a luscious background in all our great Masters. Some of my favorite artists to this day and still inspire me ~ French artist Claude Monet and founder of impressionism. He is often thought of the Father of impressionism. I have many other favorites but, Monet began it all for all of us Impressionist painters. Albert Bierstadts, Edgar Payne and Peder Mark Monster for some of my most favorite Landscape painters. There is are many, many more of the Old Masters of Landscape. these though have greatly inspired me.