I began my art career early sketching everything from cartoons to flowers in the backyard. My parents encouraged my natural talent as I attended Stephen F. Austin State University where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After college, I designed logos for several projects, companies and non-profit organizations and explored different medias such as painting, pastels, decoupage and paper mache. My checkered career includes jobs as a graphic artist, ballroom dancer, gallery bookkeeper, massage therapist, payroll clerk, and now computer programmer. However, throughout the years of these bill paying duties, I have remained an artist. And an artist I shall always be.

I found mosaics on daytime tv while being bed bound after a fall in 1997. When I was able to get around I made my first pot and the rest they say is history. After creating and selling my share of birdhouses and pots, I was ready to move into more personalized mosaics. I wanted to work with my clients on a piece that would enhance their surroundings while heightening their appreciation for the arts. I love working closely with my clients, hearing their ideas about what they want to see in their new art piece and then seeing their faces when I deliver their vision artistically rendered into something they never imagined at all.

My passion for mosaics has grown into three distinct areas over the years. First, my architectural commissions where I personally work with clients incorporating their ideas and personality into their piece. I always try to infuse other materials they have around their home or garden so the piece marries itself right into its surroundings.

Second, I am devoted to memories. I believe people should surround themselves with art and the most important art to me is filled with memories. I believe it’s important to scrapbook, display and have photos created into art. I am dedicated to keeping the history of “memoryware” alive by creating original works of art using photographs and mementos.

Third, I have a huge desire to recycle the world. My new fine art pieces are created using found wood. Being a new ranch owner, I began finding sticks and pieces of fallen wood to have such a beautiful artistic quality I could not help but to create a mosaic with them. I feel I have found my own unique way to recycle and bring natures beauty into the home.

My passion is and will always be art. I believe everyone should have some form of art in their lives. Whether you create it, collect it or just go out and appreciate it.