Artist's Statement 2006

When we discover the simple beauty around us, the whole world awakens.

In my art I try to venture beyond the conventional senses to explore the inner soul of otherwise seemingly ordinary objects, places and things. In closely examrning our environments. I start to hear the quiet voices of things that many are often too busy to catch. At that breakthrough moment, time slows - then stops, allowing the subtle and
exciting energy of my subject to resonate within me in a sacred expression of its divine power. I hope my paintings invite a new awareness and perception of unexpected beauty .

I push the boundaries of traditional watercolor technique, mixing in other media and playing with color, texture and transparency in a style that is loose and open to surprise, I work intuitively, embracing the spontaneity of the paint.

In conveying the joy, beauty and luminosity inherent in nature. I share echoes of my inner self.

Artist Resume

Exhibitions
Two Views, Monroe Art Center, Monroe Wisconsin 2004
Regional Juried Exhibition II, Freeport Arts Center, Freeport Illinois, November 2003
Art Alliance of Green County Art Exhibition, The Balcony Gallery, Monticello Wisconsin, November 2003
Visions Invitational Show Quilian Visual Arts Center, Gainesville Georgia, April 2003
Salon des Refuses, Decatur, Georgia, May 2001
Life; Its many Dimensions Invitational Show Quilian Visual Arts Center, Gainsville, Georgia, May 2001
Atlanta Festival of Food, Wine, Art and Music, Atlanta Georgia, June 2000
Virginia-Highlands Summerfest, Atlanta Georgia, June 2000
Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur Georgia, May 2000 Made in the Shade, Atlanta Georgia, May 2000
Dogwood Festival, Atlanta Georgia, April 2000
The Big Angel Blowout, Atlanta Georgia, November 1999
The Art of Food Solo show, Margieis Pantry, Decatur Georgia, October 1999

Awards
Honorable Mention, Juried Show, Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands North Carolina, October 2002
Honorable Mention, Georgia Watercolor Society Members Show, Roswell Georgia, August 2002
G W S Award, Georgia Watercolor Society Member Show, Blue Ridge Georgia, August 2001
Northern Light Books Award, Georgia Watercolor Society National Traveling Exhibition, March, 2001
3rd Place Award, Quilian Visual Arts Center Members Show, Gainesville Georgia, September 2000
Earnie award for boys active wear, B. U .M. Equipment, New York New York, 1993
The Womenis Board of the Art Institute of Chicago Scholarship, Chicago Illinois, 1985
Perry Ellis Scholarship from Marshall Field & co., Chicago Illinois, 1985

Galleries
The Grace Chosy Gallery, Madfison, Wisconsin 2004-
The Quilian Visual Arts Center Gallery, Gainesville Georgia, 2003
Brewery Pottery Studio, Mineral Point Wisconsin, 2003
Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2001-2002
The Funky Chicken Art Project, Dahlonega Georgia, 2001-2002

Education -B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, 1985

Born San Antonio, Texas