I was born in Birmingham Alabama, a poor southern country girl. I have struggled throughout my life, barely surviving, and I believe that is why I produce the art I do today. I married at the age of 17 to a wonderful man and now have two beautiful grown daughters. I also have one six-year-old granddaughter.

I waited 23 years to attend college. I attended Southeast Missouri State University College and graduated in the summer of 2008 with two degrees. I now have a Bachelors in Fine Arts and a Bachelors in Secondary Education in Art. It has always been a dream of mine to be a teacher of art and a successful and accomplished artist. I never realized how much I could learn about art until I attended college. However, I know now, without a doubt, Art is a lifetime of learning. Earlier this year I was accepted into the Masters of Art program at Fontbonne University in St. Louis. I will be attending this fall to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts.

I consider myself a diverse artist and I use many different techniques in creating my paintings, drawings, ceramic pieces, and prints. As I work, I disappear from reality and instead create what I imagine. Although some of the details are lost in translation and others are exaggerated, the final result reveals what I find most important. As a result of using my own insight every time I add paint to the canvas, my painting captures the subject that no photograph can see, the free motion I use as I draw from life or my imagination comes from the depths of my soul, creating from clay lets me explore the things I could never do in a two dimensional piece of artwork, and last but not least prints are the most challenging for which I am willing to take on in a moments notice if I have the right tools for creating such pieces. With every piece of artwork that I produce, energy and life are created. I believe that my best artwork has yet to come.