My dear, late grandmother always told me that I starting drawing the moment I first picked up a pencil. From those first tentative scribbles on up to the present day, the humble graphite pencil is still my tool of choice.
A passion for horses and fascination with faces influenced my art from an early age. Much to the chagrin of my teachers, my school book covers were forever decorated in pencil and ball paint pen with tiny portraits of friends and family and dancing ponies with long flowing manes and tails.
After four years of high school art study my creative aspirations were put on the back burner, when a major life transition required the stability of a 9-5 job. There were bills that needed to be paid and little to no time for artistic endeavors.
Fast forward twenty-odd years to 1995, when my graphite portrait “Sisters” placed second in a national art competition sponsored by Illustrator Magazine. My long-neglected creative soul had been reawakened. Since that time, creating portrait heirlooms has become one of my greatest joys, my portraits of people and pets finding loving homes from shore to shore.