About

“Creating art is a challenge. It is a challenge to capture the beauty that God surrounds us with, the vision God has given each one of us and the vision that our life’s adventures impress upon us. It is a challenge to make these simple tools give us something that sings to the tune of our heart.  Creating art  gives so much joy in that it makes us view our surroundings with great consciousness and the more our lives are lived with great consciousness the richer our art becomes.”  Sara Beth Fair

MY JOURNEY

I live in the lovely, exciting and yet sleepy southern town of Huntsville, Alabama with Steve, my husband, our three beautiful children. Our home and my studio are nestled near the bluff on Monte Sano Mountain where every evening I am priveledged to view the most magnifienct displays of colors in the sunset. I consider myself so blessed to have grown up in the south where family (and I have a lot of this), anything old, traditions and beautiful things are so cherished. I have always loved art and my parents always made it an active part of our life ! “It was a blessing to grow up in a home where creativity, a love
for God, for people, for knowledge and nature abounded.”

Education
I did not realize that an art degree was something you pursued, it was just something you did, so I received an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering in the area of Biomechanics from UAB. During a fellowship to the Netherlands in 1989, I visited art museums across Europe studying first hand the works by the great Masters and set up a
little watercolor studio on my balcony in Holland. I put much of my artistic pursuits on hold while receiving a PhD in Applied Optics and working at NASA.  There was not much of me leftover during that time.

My background in the sciences has openend my eyes to explore deeper the
mysteries of art and nature (science) as well as the importance of the two. In 1999, I was finally able to pursue painting and drawing on a full time basis. Since then I have engaged in the study of art independently as well as by studying with many local, national, and internationally recognized artists. In 2005, I was priveledged to begin three years of mentoring with the late Russian Impressionist Murat Kaboulov. I have
also studied with students of Russian Impressionist Sergei Bongart, as well as CW Mundy, Carolyn Anderson and others.

My studies are influenced by my love for the great masters and the Russian, American and French impressionists.

Sharing
I love to share my passion for art and the beauty it brings to our lives when we are truly “seeing.” I regularly offer classes and workshops on drawing the figure, plein air painting and still life oil painting. These have been primarily taught through the Huntsville Museum of Art and the Burritt Museum in Huntsville.

 

My Inspirations….

 

Collections:
Port St. Joe Company
Progress Bank, Huntsville, Al

Juried Shows and Invitationals:
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2010
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, Featured Local Artist, 2009
Hanover Gallery, Featured Guest Artist, September 2008
Florida’s Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, 2008
Harding Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2008
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, Featured Local Artist, 2008
David Lipscomb Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2008
Brentwood  Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2007
Monte Sano Art Show, 2007
Maury Regional Fine Art Show, Columbia, Tn, 2007
Habersham Gallery, Solo Exhibition, 2007
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2007
Brentwood  Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2006
Monte Sano Art Show, 2006
Habersham Gallery, Solo Exhibition, 2006
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2006
Monte Sano Art Show, 2005
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2005

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