Introduction As an artist many styles of art-making inspire me, with my strengths being drawing, painting and collage. I have been a freelance artist for over thirty years with portraiture showcasing my ability to capture personalities through realism and expressionism. My studio and gallery space is at Dilworth Artisan in Southend Charlotte.
Public Art · Charlotte International Arts Festival Fellow “Quilt Cube” - September 2025 · Words Matter mural collaboration, Charlotte NC - June 2025 · Klondike Dam 3000 sq ft mural, Elkin NC - March 2024 · Museum of the New South Mural Series Collaboration with Rosalia Torres-Weiner – Spring 2024 · Hawkins Connex Container Mural Collaboration with Caroline Simas – Spring 2023 · TD Bank Digital Mural – April 2023 · Lucille Giles Men’s Shelter Mural – February 2023 · Painters Ice Cream Interior Mural – January 2023 · Charles Ervin Building 5,500 sq foot Retaining Wall Retrospective Mural Collaboration with Hilary Siber - June 2022 · Your Good Neighbor portrait project - July 2021-June 2022 · CATS Transit Pass Design Contest for 2022 – First Place – 2021 · Plaza Midwood Signal Box Artwork Winner – Summer 2019 · Community murals in Ukhrul, India – 2017
Achievements · Atlanta Portrait Society Exhibit - 2nd Place · ArtFields 2026 · Raleigh Fine Arts Society Juried Exhibition 2025 · ArtFields 2025 · Olive Stack Artist Residency in Listowel, Ireland – May 2024 · McColl Center Benefit Art Sale - juried participant – Winter 2024 · Raleigh Fine Arts Society Juried Exhibition 2023 · ArtFields 2024 · ArtFields 2023 Exhibition Award · Kintsugi Instructor with Embers International and Academy Kintsugi, Mumbai India – February 2022 · Arts and Science Council Cultural Grant recipient – 2021 · ArtPop Street Gallery Award Winner, class of 2022 · Artfields – Spring 2022 · Van Gogh Artist in Residence – Summer 2021 · ArtFields – Spring 2021 · McColl Center Benefit Art Sale - juried participant – Fall 2020 · Charlotte Business Journal Book of Lists featured artist – 2021 · Arts & Science Council Community Supported Arts Grant recipient – Spring 2020 · Paintings on cover and throughout Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region 40th Anniversary Special Edition Publication – Fall 2018 · Rock Hill Art Party Juried Exhibition and First Place Prize – November 2018 · I Choose to Forgive, Dianne Collard book cover – September 2018 · Makoto Fujimura juried into Infinite Grace Artist Workshop – August 2018 · Creative Mornings HUG Grant for “SEEN” Series – August 2018 · ArtPop Street Gallery Charlotte Winner, Class of 2018
Galleries · Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC ·dk Gallery, Marietta, GA
Shows · “Crowned” Duet Show at The Cain Center for the Arts – April – June 2024 · "Reclaimed Memories" Solo Show at CPCC's Ross Gallery - August - October 2022 · "Interminglings" at Mooresville Arts - August-September 2022 · "See of Humanity" at Matthews Town Hall - September-October 2021 · "On Life" Exhibit at Gallery C3- Featured Artist - June-August 2021 · Duets: An Immersive Open Air Art Show - June 2021 · Open Wall Exhibition with Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County– April - May 2021 · Gallery C3 Intersection Show – December-January 2021 · Arts Council of York County's 31st Juried Competition Exhibition –June-July 2020 · Participating artist in "Illuminate" show at the Bill and Patty Gorelick Gallery at CPCC – January - December 2020 · Pla-stik\ A Pop-up Perspective Art Show at Summerbird Boutique – November 2019 · Exhibitor at The Contemporary Art Exchange Gallery– January-April 2019 · Artist on Display at Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center – September 2018 to present
Work Experience · Lorien Arts Academy Painting Instructor – Summer 2018, 2019, 2020 · Church at Charlotte – 2016-2018 Assist with the Arts Program and 2 Galleries Quarterly lead and instruct Art Studio Nights · Charlotte Christian School – August 2004-June 2017 Director of Visual Arts Upper School Art Teacher Taught Art 1, Art 2, Honors Studio Art, AP Studio Art and AP Art History Sponsor of National Art Honor Society College Board AP Studio Art Portfolio Reader four years · Otto and Moore, Inc. Furniture Design Firm, High Point, NC – 1984-1992
Education UNC-Chapel Hill 1980-1984 BFA in Painting and Print Making as a Morehead-Cain Scholar
