(about me)

I am always noticing colors and line juxtapositions. I have always been drawn to and painted the human form. However, I have slowly changed to painting and sketching similar shapes in nature, such as plants and trees in their most simplified geometric shapes.  A simple line can sometimes be so engaging on its own. If I can manipulate that image, that line, perhaps with color, composition or even texture, in a way that helps set it apart, then one can notice a new element of it's subtle presence.

(about my work)

I have always painted. My mother painted as a hobby and when I was a child would let me spend hours mixing paints and colors on her palettes. In college I studied art history and found that after my first class, I probably could have stayed in that dark auditorium and looked at masterworks all day. I could easily be around paint or art all the time.  I have been working as a decorative artist for several years and thoroughly enjoy the transforming walls, rooms and furniture. The physical aspect of that kind of painting is rewarding and exhausting, but is also education in all kinds of techniques and mediums that I would have never have learned otherwise.

(solo exhibitions)

2014
Gallery 363, Memphis, TN
2013 
New Works, Brass Door Memphis, TN
2005 
Lakeland City Hall, Lakeland, TN
2004 
Collected Work, Eclectic Eye, Memphis, TN
Fogelman Executive Conference Center, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2003 
Africa Series, Bartlett Performing Arts Center, Bartlett, TN
Lakeland City Hall, Lakeland, TN
2002
Women: Strength, Passion, Grace, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999
Jeniffer Church, Bert Kotze Gallerie, Johannesburg, S. Africa

(group exhibitions)

2002, 2003
Art to Dine For, Memphis, TN
2001
Mariposa, Memphis, TN
2000
Grand Opening - Mariposa, Memphis, TN
Vertigo Studios, Memphis, TN
Earth Day, The Last Place On Earth, Memphis, TN
1999
Alice Art Galley, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Art for Sale, Gallery 111, Johannesburg, S. Africa
House Artists, Bedfordview Art Gallery, Bedfordview, S.Africa, -Carfax, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Form & Function, Dasart Studio, Johannesburg, S. Africa
1998
Alice Art Gallery, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Sacred Spaces, Carfax, Johannesburg, S. Africa -Open Up,Bert Kotze Gallerie, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Gallery 111, Johannesburg, S. Africa
1997
Le Chardonnay, Memphis, TN

(projects)

2006 – present
Freelance Decorative Artist
2002 - 2011
Orpheum Theatre Auction, Memphis, TN
2002 - 2005
WKNO Art Auction, Memphis, TN
2004
Curator, In the Mix, A New Way to See Music in Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
2002
Curator, Seeing Sun Records, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2001
Gibson Guitar Artist, Memphis Charitable Foundation's Blues Ball, Memphis