I will always wish I had picked up a paintbrush earlier in life. Even though I’ve always been a creative person in some way, deep down, I feel the need to catch up! My mother was an excellent seamstress and taught me to sew at a very young age, so my first creative endeavors in college involved fashion design and tailoring. My only formal art training was during this time at Memphis State when I took a few figure structure drawing classes. Instead of continuing to pursue that path, I got married and took a job at a local bank. During those years of raising two beautiful daughters, I sewed. A lot! I made home decor, my clothing to wear to work, I made girls dresses, dance costumes and altered almost everything we wore. It wasn’t until we cleaned out a storage building by our house for my daughter to use for paint parties, that I found my love of painting. Now, I’m either traveling, looking for beautiful images to paint, taking a class or workshop, or just painting in my wonderful little studio.