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Even though we have lived in Durham,NC now for about 36 years and consider this home, I am a midwestern gal at heart. Born in 1941 in northern Ohio I grew up outdoors playing in the barns and cornfields surrounding my home. My high school sweetheart who is "still the one"(remember that song?) and I married in 1963 three days after we graduated college----me with a BFA from Bowling Green State University.It was fine if you wanted to do abstract work but I always wanted to do realistic art and there just wasn't any classical training that I knew of at that time.So I kept drawing(I could always do that), raised 2 girls,and helped grow a family business.
30 years later in 1994 I took an art class at the local Guild.From that time on I devoured books and took many workshops.You might say that I got a very late start (painting now for 15 years) And I DID but I don't look back! I'm a fast learner and in this span of 15 years I've been living in an Art Candy Store------over here is luscious charcoal, over there are delectable oils, then there is the delicacy of watercolor and who could ever turn down the soft creamy pastel? I HAVE to do them all probably because I didn't for so long.
Being a Christian has added incredible dimension to my art----how I view the world and humanity has a depth of meaning now that sometimes takes my breath away as I create.
JURIED SHOWS AND AWARDS
2010 FineArtViews January and May Online Art Competition FAV 15%(juror's favorite 15%)
Portrait Society of Atlanta's Spring Juried Exhibition
2009 Visual Art Exchange Never Exhibited Works(NEW)Show
2008 Visual Art Exchange SCOPE the North Carolina Landscape juror Tom Grubb the Executive Director of the Fayetteville Museum of Art
Art Space New Work juror Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions Weatherspoon Art Museum,UNC,Greensboro,NC
Art League of Cary 14th Annual juror Gina Cavallo Collins, coordinator of statewide exhibitions
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Portrait Society of Atlanta Summer 008 Exhibition at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art juror
Ann Manry Kenyon
Durham Art Guild 54th Annual Juried Show, juror Beverly McIver
2007 Trading Spaces an Art Center Exchange, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria,VA
Durham Art Guild 53rd Annual Juried Show, juror Barkley Hendricks
2006 Burlington Art League Small Painting Exhibition Honorable Mention
Portrait Society of America Tri-State Region Exhibition, jurors Dawn Whitelaw,Edward Jonas
Visual Art Exchange 17th Annual NEW Show
2004 NC State Fair Professional Division Best North Carolina State Fair Scene
Rocky Mount 47th Annual National Juried Art Competition
Watercolor Society of NC 59th Annual Juried Exhibition
Burlington Juried Small Painting Show Honorable Mention
2003 NC State Fair Professional Division--Faces of NC---Third Place
Burlington Art League 21st Annual Juried Fine Art Competition---First Place
Visual Art Exchange Annual NEW Show---Honorable Mention
Visual Art Exchange It's All Wet Juried Show---Honorable Mention
2002 Rocky Mount 45th Annual National Juried Art Competition
Fine art League of Cary 8th Annual Spring Juried Arist Competition
Watercolor Society of NC 57th Juried Exhibition---Fourth Place
Burlington Artist League Annual Juried Fine Art Competition--First Place, Honorable Mention
Durham Art Guild 48th Annual Juried Art Show
Visual Art Exchange Small is Big Show---Honorable Mention
2001 Durham Arts Council 2001-2002 Emerging Artist Grant
Beaufort County Art Council 37th Juried Fine Art Show--2 Honrable Mentions
Associated Artists of Winston Salem Portrait of a Day National Juried Art Competition
Visual Art Exchange 12th Annual NEW Show
Watercolor Society of NC 56th Juried Exhibition
Burlington Artists League Small painting Juried Exhibition---Honorable Mention
Rocky Mount Annual National Juried Art Exibition
Biltmore Estate Festival of Flowers Juried Art Competition
Fine Art League of Cary 7th Annual Spring Exhibition
Art Council of Wayne County 22nd Annual National Juried Fine Arts Competition
Raleigh Fine Art Society 23rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Women's Center 17th Annual Juried Exhibition
2000 Watercolor Society of NC 55th Juried Exhibition
Fine Art League of Cary 6th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition
Goldsboro 21st Annual National Juried Fine Art Exhibition---Honorable Mention
1999 Durham Art Guild 45th Annual Juried Show
Watercolor Society of NC Semi Annual Fall Show
Burlington Artist League Fine Art Competition---Honorable Mention
Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh 10th Annual NEW Show---Merit Award
Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida 25th Annual National Watercolor Show
Women's Center 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
1998 New Art in the Triangle Duke Museum of Art
Women's Center 14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
1997 New Art in the Triangle Duke Museum of Art
Watercolor Society of NC Semi Annual Spring Show
1996 Durham Art Guild Member Show-----CCB Purchase
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