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Extensive European travel has greatly influenced my loosely brushed impressionistic style favored by many collectors. My closest influence is Van Gogh; I admire his direct method of painting and his courage to be true to himself. I used to paint what I saw; now I paint what I feel. I have been fortunate enough to visit the Asylum at Saint-Rémy where Van Gogh lived and painted. I stood in his room and put my hands on the windowsill where he looked out on grain fields, olive trees and lavender. It changed my life. It gave me the courage to paint as I see things, which one gallery owner said was somewhere between “cubism, abstraction and reality.” I believe my talent is seeing beauty in things others may overlook. Professional Endeavors Winston-Salem Show House for Southern Living magazine, 2001 Waccamaw Art Guild Juried Show, 1998, 1999 Symphony Invitational, Leased 5 paintings for Shattered, a made-for TV movie Leased 5 paintings for the The Jackal, a Universal Studios film Featured in David Goin’s Charleston Gallery during Spoleto Festival USA Received Purchase Award I Vivacé, Participated in Azalea Festival, Two years teaching private lessons, Two years teaching art in public schools, Professional Instruction Seminar, Private Instruction, Portrait Painting, Figure Drawing and Painting the Nude Body, BA in Fine Arts, |