I love the outdoors. I love light. I love color and I LOVE painting the southern landscape. 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 of 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.
I also have a strong passion for the equine athlete. Much of my earlier life revolved around raising, training and showing horses and these incredible animals still inspire my work today.
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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EXHIBITIONS AND HONORS 2024
Artist's Choice Winner - 2024 Mississippi Oil Painters Association Fall Showcase, Jackson Street Gallery, Ridgland Mississippi
NOAPS Associate Member Online Exhibit
NOAPS International Best Of America Small Works Exhibition, Sugarman Peterson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Best Body of Work - 2024 Plein Air Dauphin Island
EXHIBITIONS AND HONORS 2023
Solo Show - "An Italian Perspective", CARE Art Center, Charleston, MS
Mississippi Oil Painters Association Annual Show, Jackson Street Gallery, Ridgeland, MS
Mississippi Presenters Network "Artists of the Next 50 Years"
2023 Plein Air Dauphin Island - Best body of work 2nd place
EXHIBITONS AND HONORS 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
Corporate Collection - Jerrys Artarama
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
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OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND HONORS
2019 Cotton District Juried Art Show - First Place 2D Division
"Statements" - Mississippi State University Art Department 50th Anniversary Show
Art of the Hunt - Charleston, Mississippi
1st Place Painting
Biggest Baddest Art Show 2018 - Best In Show
CSA Award Winner - Yoknapatawpha Arts Council
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MEDIA
Feature Story - "Moved To Beauty" Delta Magazine March 2018
Mississippi Minute Podcast With Steve Azar
Jerrys Artarama 2020 Catalog
Mississippi Artist To Artist Podcast
Mississippi Arts Hour Radio Show
Southern Lady Magazine Feature
The Great Paint In - Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories
HGTV's Hometown featured and staging artist
MEMBER OF
Oil Painters of America
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
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
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