I grew up just outside Jackson Mississippi.  Living out in the country boredom helped cultivate my creativity.  Art found me in college while I was major surfing and testing the waters as an Interior Design major.  Having to take several basic art classes - Photography finally lit a fire under me.  I graduated from Mississippi State University in 1995 with a Bachelors of Fine Art.

Getting married after college to my sweetheart Chris; I told him I would move anywhere but Texas.  Well here I am in Kingwood, TX just outside of Houston  (where we've been since college).  I was lucky to find a fantastic job with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (after several years of paying my dues in odd jobs).  I spent a little over three years as the assistant to the Photographer, Tom Dubrock.  He taught me so much and the atmosphere was an artist dream.  Being surrounded by paintings, photography, sculpture - everything imaginable in a top museum was Heaven - with stress.  I felt like I wasn't creating but "producing" for others.

Deciding to stay at home with my two little girls was such an easy decision.  I spent four years not thinking about art at all.   In January of '07 my mom sent me to a painting class for my birthday.  I hadn't been interested in painting since college but I was ready for a little break from the girls and a week in New Orleans sounded great.  I fell in love with oil the first day!  Fredrick Guess, the artist giving the class, is a phenomenal teacher.  A classically trained impressionist, he has a talent for teaching as well as painting.  Some how he managed what my painting professors in college could not - he got me to translate what I see on to canvas.

I've been painting ever since and loving every brush stroke.