Occupation: Painter Media: Mixed Water Media & Encaustics, Metallics & Acrylics, Watercolor. Born Sulphur Springs, Texas, May 31, 1935.
Education Texas Women's Univ, Texas A&M, BS, 56. studied with Glenn R Bradshaw, Mary Todd Beam, Ed Blackburn, Maxine Masterfield, Marilyn Hughey Phillis & Bror Utter.
Honorary Degrees Acad Int des Arts Contemporains, Belg, Hon Dr, 94.
Teaching Positions Instr art, FWISD, Fort Worth, Texas, 68-69 & Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, 90-93; instructor painting, Templeton Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas, 86, Carrizo Lodge Art Sch, Ruidoso, New Mexico, 87-88 & Women's Club Art Department, Fort Worth, 2000.
Business and Professional Positions Director, Atrium Gallery, Forth Worth, Texas, 79-82; artist-in-residence, Texas Comn on Arts, 90-91 & 94-95.
Public Works Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama; Cannon Gallery, Bismarck State Coll, North Dakota; Univ N Texas Health Sci Center, Fort Worth; Permanent Collection, Fort Worth Women's Club, Texas; Texas A & M, Tarleton; Fort Worth Public Library, Texas; First United Methodist Church, Fort Worth & Sulphur Springs, Texas; Texas Public Library, Sulphur Springs.
Exhibitions Nat League America Penwomen, Summer Art Museum, Washington DC, 92 & 96; Belgium Grand Prix, 93-96, 2004; Salon D'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 92-93 & Soc Int Des Beaux Arts, 94, 96; A Fresh Look at Texas Art, McKinney Ave Contemporary, Dallas, 99; Int Soc Experimental Artists, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama, 99; Soc Layerists in Multi Media, Chapelle Des Penitents Blancs, Gordes, France, 2000; Salmagundi Club, New York, 2002-2003, 2005; Wales Cynon Valley Mus, Aberdare, Wales, 2004; Cardiff Whales, UK, 2005.
Bibliography Art and Healing, 99; Master Painters of the World, International Artist Magazine, 2000; Splash 8, 2004; The Art of Layering Making Connections, 2004; Fort Worth Community Arts Center Biennial, Fort Worth Star Telegram, 2006; Plus many other magazine and book articles.
Honors and Awards Citation Award, John L Clardy, 86; Tom Lynch Award, 87; Best of Abstracts, Phillip Isenberg, 96; Nautilus fellow, Int Soc Experimental Artists, 2000; Samuel Leitman Member Award, Salmagundi Club, New York, 2006.
Memberships Texas Fine Arts Association, Region XV (president & regional director, 79-81); Soc Watercolor Artists (vice president, 89, signatore); Texas Visual Arts Association (asst vice president, 93); Int Soc Experimental Artists (president, 98-99, signatore); Salmagundi Club; Southwestern Watercolor Soc Dallas (signatore); Society of Layerists in Multi Media (signature).
Gallery Speciality Comtemp, Abstract.
Areas of Interest The mysteries of the cosmos.
Dealers Upstairs Gallery 1038 W Abram St Arlington TX; Kens Gallery 5922 Wedgewood Dr Fort Worth TX.
