About

I love the outdoors. I love light. I love color. When all of the elements come together I can’t do anything but paint! As an artist, I am fascinated by the relationship between light and color and how one affects the other. Yes, you will see reoccurring elements in my work like horses, family and mostly my Mississippi landscape, but it all comes down to the light.

After receiving my BFA from Mississippi State in 1992, I studied extensively under Sammy Britt and focused on the techniques of Henry Hensche and the colorist movement. Sammy sees light and color unlike anyone I know. I have taken these techniques and incorporated them into my own style. 

I love painting outdoors “en plein air” and living on our horse farm at the edge of the Mississippi delta I have an unlimited supply of subject matter.  I am passionate about the vast alluvial plain that is the Mississippi Delta. I feel it is a magical landscape overlooked by most.  From the dusty dirt turn rows of the vast farmlands, to the age old cypress trees found in the many sloughs and swamps  scattered throughout  the lowlands, I want to show the world what beauty is so unique to the rural south.

When someone views my work, I want them to FEEL it. Whether it is a crisp autumn day or a the late day sun reflecting off of a horse’s back, I want to transport the viewer to a time and place that I deemed magical. 

When not at my easel, I spend time in the class room teaching and sharing my love for landscape painting. 

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EXHIBITONS AND HOHORS 2022

Corporate Collection - Community Bank

2022 Big Bad Art Show First Place Painting

2022 National Oil And Acrylic Painters Society Best Of America Juried Exhibition, Wilcox Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

Solo Show "Mississippi Muse" Pacesetter Gallery, Flowood, MS

NOAPS National Small Works Show - Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham, AL

MGAL Juried Star Artist Exhibition, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN

Solo Show, Gumtree Museum, Tupelo, MS

EXHIBITIONS and HONORS 2021

2021 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Fall International Online Exhibit 

Best In Show Plein Air in the Garden, Memphis Botanical Garden, Memphis TN

Big Bad Art Art Show, Honorable Mention, Oxford, MS 

PaceSetter Gallery Plein Air Event, Third Place, Brandon, MS 

Faculty, Plein Air South Fall Conference, Forgotten Coast, FL

Memphis Germantown Art League Juried Winter Exhibition, Germantown, TN

9Th Annual Juried Bi-Annual Mississippi Invitational - Roger Malkin Gallery, Greenville, MS

Mississippi Oil Painters Association Annual Exhibition - Jackson Street Gallery, Ridgeland, MS

Mississippi Plein Air Painters Exhibit -Roger Malkin Gallery, Greenville, MS

Memphis Germantown Art League Star Artist Juried Exhibition 

National Oil and Acrylic Painters National Small Works Exhibit - Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC

American Impressionist Society Associate Member Juried Exhibit - ONLINE

Plein Air Roanoke - The Little Gallery, Roanoke, VA

Faculty, Plein Air South Spring Conference - Forgotten Coast, FL

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EXHIBITIONS AND HONORS 2020

Oil Painters of America 2020 Online Salon Show

American Impressionist Society 2020 Juried Online Exhibit 

"Together", A Virtual Show with the Memphis Germantown Art League and Artists' Link

"The Great Paint In" National Virtual Show

"Southern Impressions", Solo Show at City Grocery, Oxford, Mississippi

Instructor for the 2020 Art of the Carolinas Virtual Art Conference 

Featured Guest on Mississippi Minute With Steve Azar and The Mississippi Artist Hour with Melody Thortis

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EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS 2019

2019 Cotton District Juried Art Show - "Chillin On A Dirt Road" , First Place in the 2D Division

Solo Show - "Southern Serenity", The Frame-Up/Basement Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi

Present Mississippi Touring Art Show

The 2019 Cedars Juried Art Show

Rhythm and Flow Art Exhibit - Northwest Mississippi Community College

Spotlight on Mississippi Art Exhibit , Starkville, Mississippi

Memphis/ Germantown Art League Artist Showcase 

Mississippi Oil Painters Association Annual Exhibit 

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EXHIBITIONS AND HONORS 2018

"Statements"  - Mississippi State University Art Department 50th Anniversary Show

Art of the Hunt - Charleston, Mississippi 

                               1st Place Painting

Biggest Baddest Art Show - Best In Show 

The Cedars Art Show - Jackson, MS

Feature Story -"Moved To Beauty"

                             Delta Magazine - March 2018

CSA Award Winner - Yoknapatawpha Arts Council

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MEMBER OF

Oil Painters of America

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society

American Women Artists

Mississippi Oil Painters Association 

Mississippi Plein Air Painters

Past President of the Memphis/Germantown Arts League

Former Executive Director of The Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort