Since graduating from Oklahoma State University with degrees in Art as well as Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising, I have pursued a career that encompassed both.
My career in art has spanned fifty years with many awards and much recognition in national publications.
Retiring from my gift design business, led to a new career studying different styles of printmaking.
In 2008 I started exploring printmaking by studying woodcuts in Tuscany, Italy with Sabra Field and Marie Weaver. The technique studied was the traditional Japanese multi block woodcut.
After discovering the White line Woodcut, I had the great opportunity to study with Kathryn Smith the granddaughter of Ferol Sibley Warthen, one of the accomplished early White line Printmakers.
Additional study of a private Master's Class with Bill Evaul increased my skill and helped master this American woodcut technique.
After being awarded an artist residency by the Peaked Hill Trust in the dunes of Provincetown, MA, my work has focused on completing the two year project that resulted.
Dunes Spirit, a wordless book, narrated with my white line woodcuts, tells how spending a solitary two weeks in a dune shack with no running water or electric, united me with nature and my spirit.
The result of the experience has been a profound change to color and strength of my artwork