About
About the Artist
I was born and raised in Charleston, SC. I sold my first painting to my teacher in the third grade, which kicked off a lifelong interest in pursuing art. After attending the SC Governor's School for the Arts in high school, I continued her arts education at Wake Forest, graduating with a minor in Studio Art.
Back in my hometown, I tried my hand at launching an oil painting career. I made it as far as hosting a solo exhibit at the Historic Charleston Foundation during Charleston's French Quarter Art Walk before marrying, moving to Missouri, and shifting my focus to starting a family.
Three daughters later and back in Charleston, I began drawing pencil portraits- at first for other mothers of preschoolers. This led to selling portrait commissions through Charleston Children's Boutique. After another move to Upstate South Carolina following my husband's job, and the adoption of our fourth daughter from Albania, I picked up my art supplies again, but this time with an itch to work in color alongside pencil portraits.
I embrace a representational style and seek to merge an accurate rendering with a painterly approach. I am inspired by anything organic or asymmetrical- such as portraiture, landscape scenery, and still lifes. I enjoy working two-dimensionally in a variety of mediums, such as pencil, pastel, charcoal, watercolor and oil.
My Christian faith is the defining feature of my life, and my hope is that all of my artwork makes a compelling case for what is Beautiful and True.
Recent Exhibits and Awards
Dakota Pastels 2020 Spring Quarter Pastel Competition: Honorable Mention for "Salt Lace," June 2020
The Charleston Museum, "From Etchings to Pastels: A New Interpretation of the Charleston Renaissance", March-Nov. 2020
Gateway Arts Center 2nd Annual Juried Competition: Drawing Merit Award for "Present in the Moment," September 2019
Gateway Arts Center Members' Show: Voters' Choice Awards, 1st and 2nd place for "Salt Lace" and "Green Curl," March 2019
Gateway Arts Center 1st Annual Juried Competition, Feb. 2019
Anderson Arts Center Annual Juried Show: Merit Award for "Margot", July 2017
Affiliations
Member, South Carolina Pastel Society
Member, Anderson Artists' Guild
