With the beautiful mountain scenes and the Shenandoah Valley below, I still tend to prefer painting portraits.  It probably is  for the beauty of nature in human beings.  The two dimensional canvas must capture it all, from the mysterious river valleys and the hazy overlapping blue mountains to the joyful innocence of the young and the traces of the dimensions of time as it brings maturity and … [Read more...]

To be one of five women Virginia artists to be selected with a commission to paint two of the 10 living First Ladies of Virginia was a great honor and at first quite overwhelming. I was to paint first lady Jeannie Baliles, 1986-l990 and Roxane Gilmore, 1998-2002. The next few months were exciting and eventful starting with meeting Virginia First Lady, Maureen McDonnell and representatives of the … [Read more...]

Blogs are new to me; this is my first blog. I'm painting the first of several pastels which were lost in a horrible house fire. The fact that the house and all it's contents were insured points out the importance of including your original works of art in your house insurance. The irony is in the fact that this painting is of a fire chief. How devastating it must have felt to loose all … [Read more...]