TEACHER'S STATEMENT | EDUCATION | ARTIST'S STATEMENT
EXPERIENCE | SHOWS/PUBLICATIONS | AWARDS

In my painting classes, students work through a series of problems which focus on developing skills while addressing formal issues such as color, value, composition and space. We discuss various approaches to painting and explore techniques and materials. Students are encouraged to explore art history and the works and the lives of artists through various periods as well as contemporary issues and art forms. Spending time exploring all types of art in museums and galleries is also highly recommended. From the beginning, I think it is important for students to develop their unique form of expression through work, research, reading, drawing, experimentation and journaling. More advanced students are challenged with more difficult projects to move them to a greater understanding of their own ideas and process, and to develop their skills and craft so that they can more effectively express those ideas.

1982-85 MFA, Painting, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, Texas. Studied with Roger Winter, Dan Wingren, Larry Scholder, William Bailey, Neil Welliver

1970-75 BFA, Painting and Drawing, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York Studied with John Button, Don Nice, Herb Katzman, Harvey Dinnerstein, Fairfield Porter

1968 State University of New York at New Paltz

Landscape is an infinite source of inspiration, excitement and challenge on many levels. I am constantly challenging myself in my work, striving for deeper involvement in the true essence of my subject, in a stronger more personal response and in a more sophisticated surface quality.

Recently I am attempting to focus and simplify everything about the way I live and paint, to discover a pure harmony in subject, response and execution to effectively integrate everything I do. I have also become more intrigued with the honest expression of the "mark," and the simplicity of line and gesture. This interest has led to experimentation in approach, materials and mediums continuing to use landscape and now still life as my subject Experimentation always brings energy and new ideas to my work. Presently I cannot see what will evolve, but I am very excited at the prospect of the journey.
February 2004

1982-present at various local colleges/universities in the Dallas area, as well as private classes

2001
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Drawing II, Painting I, (Spring Semester)

2000
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Gateway Gallery Adult Education,
Landscape Painting in the Galleries (Spring)

2000
Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas
Watercolor I & II

1999-Present
Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas
Drawing II, III, & IV, Painting I, Watercolor I & II, Outdoor Painting (May term)

1998
Creative Arts Center, Dallas, Texas
Beginning Drawing, Beginning Painting, Outdoor Painting

1998-Present
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Community Education Program Beginning Oil
Painting, Beginning Drawing, Portrait Painting, and Intermediate Oil Painting with an emphasis on landscape

1998 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Beginning Oil Painting (Fall Semester)

1993-97 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Continuing Education Program
Beginning Oil Painting, Portrait Painting, Watercolor, Beginning Drawing

1986-97 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Continuing Education Program
Oil Painting with an emphasis on landscape

1991 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Drawing I

1990-91 Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas
Watercolor I & II, Drawing I

1990 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Design I

1989 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Gateway Gallery: Adult Education, Watercolor

1988-89 Richland College Continuing Education, Richardson, Texas
Beginning Oil and Acrylic Painting

1982-85 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Graduate Teaching Assistant (3 semesters): Design I, Design II, Painting I, Drawing I

1980-Present Private teaching in Painting and Drawing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 Eastfield College Faculty Exhibition

2002 Eighth Annual National Juried Pastel Exhibition, (Juror: Maggie Price), La Fond Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 Recent Work, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1999
Women and Visual Culture at SMU, curated by Frances Crisman Worley, Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

1998
Faculty Show, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Recent Work, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Women and Their Work, Juried Exhibition, Austin, Texas

1997 Recent Work, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1996 Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

1993 Texas Visual Arts Association, 18th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Dallas, Texas

1992 New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, New York
Faculty Exhibition, Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

1991
Invitational Group Exhibition, Collin County Community College,
Plano, Texas
Marie Park Art Dealer, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Proud, curated by Gail Sachson, City Hall, Dallas, Texas

1990 Faculty Exhibition, Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

1988 City Life, Invitational Exhibition, Texas Commerce Rotunda Building,
Dallas, Texas

1986
Five Independent Artists Group Exhibition, 3200 Main Street, Dallas, Texas
Sesquicentennial Series: Paintings of Dallas, Park Cities Savings and Loan, Dallas, Texas

1985 Art in the Metroplex (juried exhibition), Fort Worth, Texas

1974 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

1970-71 Artisan Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey

Commissions
1988-89 Mural Commission for Mr. B.F. Hicks, Mt. Vernon, Texas (8 x 32 feet)
1980-82 Two murals for Café Cancun, Dallas, Texas (9 x 24 feet and 7 x 22 feet)
1979 Painting for Plum Blossom Restaurant, Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas
1976-Present Private commission paintings