I was born in Longview, Texas 1982. I am the youngest of two children, both being girls. Drawing has always been a part of my life. I got my first art set before I even started kindergarten. I used to draw and write on the walls and my parents blamed my older sister because they did not even think I could write so they really didn't believe I could draw. At the age of six, my family moved to El Dorado, Arkansas. Many of the experiences while growing up in Arkansas-both good and bad- helped to not only shape my beliefs personally, but they fueled me creatively as well.

I returned to Longview, Texas at the age of fourteen to finish high school. There began my pattern of butting heads with every art teacher I would ever have. After a two-year stint at Junior College, I transferred to The University of Texas at Tyler where I received my BFA in the winter of 2005.

As an art student in high school and college, I always found myself in a peculiar spot. I wasn't big on "assignments". Honestly, I was terrible. After three years at UT, I can count on one hand the number of assignments I actually completed. My primary instructor at UT Tyler, Jim Pace, approached me one day and said "It would be nice if you would do the assignments one day, I don't just make that shit up, you know."

As an artist I am always asked: “What makes you paint?” or “What makes you an Artist?” I would counter that with: “What makes you get up in the morning? What makes you take every breath you take? That is the very same thing that makes me paint”. It is a calling, a compulsion. Art is something I have to do. My biggest personal inspiration is my Grandmother, Margaret Wilson. She was perhaps the love of my life and she taught me more about people in her passing than anyone alive has ever done. I am moved by the vices and virtues of people, motivated by experience, and fueled by my passion for it all. I really feel that as I grow and evolve as a person that my work does also.

My most recent events were the Art For Education art auction in Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2005, and Fox 26 KRIV's morning segment Artist of the week January 30 through February 3,2006.


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