| I grew up in Tennessee and began drawing at age 5. I never stopped. I took a two-year Art Instruction correspondence course between ages 15 and 17. I worked drawing silhouettes for customers as a buying incentive at the local department store at age 15. At Stanford University in 1961-67, I took life drawing and painting and architecture courses and won first prize in the drawing portion of the Medical School Art Exhibition and was invited to exhibit in the annual Standford University Student Art Exhibition. My drawings were also used to illustrate work with patients as a student of Topical medicine in an article in Stanford MD in 1965. While in England in 1967-70 my work was accepted for exhibition at the National Art Exhibition in London in 1969. I also took courses in sculpture at the Cambridge Institute of Technology. In North Carolina, my work was accepted for exhibition at the State Fair Art Show, and in recent years, I have had work on exhibit at the Art Mall in Ripley, Tennessee, Budding Artists in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina and the Carolina Artist Studio Gallery. Currently I am a member of the West Tennessee Artist Association and Carolina Artists. My drawings and paintings are in private collections in California, New York, England, Germany, Canada, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina. Presently I like to do watercolors, pen and ink drawings and pastels of coastal scenes of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the North Carolina mountains, the American Southwest and the islands of the Caribbean. |







