Artist Statement

Every location I paint is significant to me. I know these places so well, they are etched in my consciousness. I live in a region that presents wildly diverse landscapes and offers my imagination infinite ways to translate them into a range of keys or themes. That being said, the painting is never just about a location, per se; rather, that location becomes a tool I use to fulfill a particular series I am working on at that time.

I am an avid student of early 20th-century American landscape painters. My strongest influences are Tryon, Twachtman, and Whistler and their sensitive, delicate, high-key palettes. I work in series of pieces, each with a common thread of subject matter, palette theme, or value key. This allows me to explore the landscape and push color and space beyond traditional representation. My current obsession is developing a sense of space and place using limited tools of color and value in straightforward compositions, visually articulating an emotional connection to my environment.

Education

Utah State University: Fine Art with an emphasis on painting and drawing
Snow College: Attended accredited workshop under direction of Oscral Allred and Carl Purcell emphasizing composition and design as well as figural study

Juried Awards & Shows

Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT; Solo Exhibit, February 2005
Kneeland Gallery; Three-Person Show, March 2005
Tucker Gallery, Chicago, IL; Two-Person Exhibit, April 2005
Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA - Holiday Invitational, December 2004
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA; 14th-Annual Miniature Invitational, November 2004
Meyer Gallery, Jackson, WY; Solo Exhibit, July 2004
Kneeland Gallery; Plein Air Invitational Show, August 2004
Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; The Color of Mood Invitational Exhibit, May 2004
Principle Gallery; Two-Person Show, April 2004
Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT; Two-Person Show, February 2004
Kneeland Gallery; Three-Person Show, February 2004
Meyer Gallery, Jackson, WY; Two-Person Show, August 2004
Artist to Watch; October 2003, Southwest Art Magazine
Meyer Gallery, Jackson, WY; Two-Person Show, July 2003
Kirkland, WA; Howard/Mandville 13th Annual Miniature Show, November 2003
Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT; Solo Exhibit, June 2003
Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT; Two-Person Show, December 2002
Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT; Invitational Landscapes of Utah Olympic Exhibit, 2002
Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT; Landscape Exhibit, 2002-2003
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT; Springville Salon, 2001 and 2002, and
American Association of University Women of Utah at Springville, 2000
Weber State University, Ogden, UT; American Association of University Women of Utah, 2002
Ruth Turner Cash Award, Scholarship Award from Weber State University