About

I have been an artist all my life. I love color, wearing it, painting it, seeing it. As a child in the fifty's. I remember painting the neighbors white wall tires and checkerboard garage doors with the primaries, red, yellow and blue.. The white was gone in a NY minute as we use to say in Oklahoma. After returning home, feeling proud of my décor changes, I heard my Mom yelling my full name (you know what that means). Soon I was with a bucket of soapy water scrubbing away at permanent paint, as my parents and neighbors looked on. I never asked what my parents had to do to make peace with the neighbors.

When I am ready to die, enter a hospital, nursing home, or god forbid an asylum, WHITE will be just fine. But for now, let’s live life like a fiesta! no white! Presently I am downtown in a loft, 910 N. Congress, office, home and art studio.. Visitors to my home say it looks like a big jewelry box, Marti Gras, Cirque, or the Brazil Carnival. It may be gaudy to some, but to me its home. CBS did a story on my new home/office, said that WEIRD moved downtown and I was the First Lady of Weird. My home is a Realtor’s nightmare. The outside of my old house in Clarksville, seen from MoPac, had 4ft x 4ft letters spelling out KEEPIN ‘ IT WEIRD. You might have seen me, playing myself, in the production of KEEPIN’ IT WEIRD at Zachary Scott Theatre. Many of familiar with my pet pig and piggy art car, seen around town for the last 10 years.

My calling is to entertain and I do that by who I am and hopefully by what I paint. I have brought color back in my travels from Cuba, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Hawaii, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand. My work is bold, twisted, unpredictable, and off the wall. Layers of paint put on by various medias of hands, brushes, rags, cardboard, or toothbrushes and sometimes I literally throw it on. I have a lot of energy and I think it shows in my work.