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Industry	Arts
Occupation	Plein Air and Studio
Location	Southwest Missouri, United States
Introduction	My art interest presented itself early in my life. It seems that I have always been drawing lines or making color-shapes in my mind. After filling many sketchbooks when I was 7 or 8, working through a Jon Gnagy Art Kit during high school, and sending off lessons to the Famous Artists Course, I then went on to receive a BA in Fine Art and Psychology from Southwest Baptist University. In the 1980s I worked in black and white commercial art illustration for a local advertising agency. In the 1990s, I entered street fairs and sold commissioned portraits. In 2005, I put my art career on hold to care for my aging mother. In 2012 I resumed my art career by trying plein air painting in pastel. Later I decided to switch to plein air in oils. I enjoy networking and painting with other plein air artists and combining my love of painting, being outdoors, and traveling. I am currently very excited about my current series of historic agricultural structures, older homes, and visually celebrating the history and culture that made our way of living today possible. Thank you for visiting my blog!
Interests	Traveling, Photography, Hiking, Bicycling, Cats