Creativity was part of my life from as early as I can remember. Growing up in NW Florida, USA, in the late 1950's and 1960's, I had ample opportunity to play outside and experience the world around me. Art was part of the curriculum at school from elementary school days, and I was encouraged to explore different media and ways to express what I was seeing and feeling.
In my late teens, I fell in love with photography! I discovered the capture of light and shape on film. Then, oh, the magic of the darkroom! I could play in the darkroom for hours whether it was the makeshift darkroom in my bathroom or the more formal darkrooms I had access to over the years. And I learned to use the tools of light, composition, manipulation to express myself. As I began to interact with others who loved photography, I opened my work to critique and learned from the critique of images by other photographers. I learned from exploring the work of different photographers and of artists in diverse media.
I was fortunate to be able to take classes in one of the best two year college programs in the USA, and earned my A.S. degree in photography just as photography was moving into the digital age. Although at this time photography was not my career, it was a passion that grew and that enriched my life. In the program, I learned essential skills to better express my vision and share what I saw and felt of the world around me. I learned about and from image-makers who came before and from the passionate young photographers in my classes. I experimented freely, and by graduation time produced a series of composite images that were a creative expression of "me" and my world at that time. I have continued to create images with personal meaning and am currently working with alternative processing and mixed media encaustic methods that unite my photographic vision with hand-created art techniques.
In the years following, I worked to promote the arts locally by helping found a co-op art gallery and supporting local art organizations. I take great joy in showing my work and sharing my vision with those around me. Currently, you can find my work displayed at Galerie Elan in Daytona Beach, FL, where I am a member artist and at the main gallery of Art Spotlight in Ormond Beach, FL, as well as at several local art venues including the Saint Augustine Art Association and Marion Cultural Alliance in Ocala, FL..
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In my late teens, I fell in love with photography! I discovered the capture of light and shape on film. Then, oh, the magic of the darkroom! I could play in the darkroom for hours whether it was the makeshift darkroom in my bathroom or the more formal darkrooms I had access to over the years. And I learned to use the tools of light, composition, manipulation to express myself. As I began to interact with others who loved photography, I opened my work to critique and learned from the critique of images by other photographers. I learned from exploring the work of different photographers and of artists in diverse media.
I was fortunate to be able to take classes in one of the best two year college programs in the USA, and earned my A.S. degree in photography just as photography was moving into the digital age. Although at this time photography was not my career, it was a passion that grew and that enriched my life. In the program, I learned essential skills to better express my vision and share what I saw and felt of the world around me. I learned about and from image-makers who came before and from the passionate young photographers in my classes. I experimented freely, and by graduation time produced a series of composite images that were a creative expression of "me" and my world at that time. I have continued to create images with personal meaning and am currently working with alternative processing and mixed media encaustic methods that unite my photographic vision with hand-created art techniques.
In the years following, I worked to promote the arts locally by helping found a co-op art gallery and supporting local art organizations. I take great joy in showing my work and sharing my vision with those around me. Currently, you can find my work displayed at Galerie Elan in Daytona Beach, FL, where I am a member artist and at the main gallery of Art Spotlight in Ormond Beach, FL, as well as at several local art venues including the Saint Augustine Art Association and Marion Cultural Alliance in Ocala, FL..
click here for complete bio/resume