Pittsburgh Artist Registry

I have always known I would be an artist.  My earliest memory is of drawing crooked smiley faces, putting the nose right between the eyes, and my mother telling me to “draw what you see” and gently pointing out that noses are below the level of the eyes.  Then and there something clicked in my three-year-old mind, and I have been fascinated with the visual world ever since.  This fascination has taken me on a diverse path in art: fine art student, then graphic designer, illustrator, muralist, teacher, and recently back full circle to fine art portraiture. 

My obsession now is faces.  Subtle nuances that set one child apart from another or wrinkles of life in a wise face.  I love sunlit hair and bare feet- the mommy in me always comes to the table and, despite all the detail, the graphic designer still lives and tries to bring a well-thought-out plan to every painting.

Although I still rely on that first art lesson –“draw what you see”, I now strive to see beyond a likeness into another soul, another outlook on this visual world and try to recreate the entire union of

elements and invite the viewer to step in to see what I have seen.