Artist Statement

All my adult life I have admired luscious, juicy watercolors and vowed when I could retire, I would learn this art form. Never having studied art at all, I began in 1994, not waiting until retirement. I see watercolor's magic formula as 1 part water, 1 part color, and 1 part artist's intention. I love watching the colors mix together on the paper in unexpected patterns. The mystery of the medium offers excitement as you listen to the art unfold on it's own, letting go of your control and experiencing spontaneous expressions on the paper. Yes, I am passionate about watermedia and I hope my audience feels it also.

I like using color in a big vibrant way creating moods to set the tone of the work. Free, bold and strong are words often used to describe my art. I am constantly turned on by new challenges and love experimental methods using related water mediums such as acrylics, collage, inks and layering techniques.

I have studied intensively, both at home and abroad, with many of today's leading watercolorists. I am a Signature Member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, the International Society of Experimental Artists, International Society of Acrylic Painters, a juried member of the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media and also a member of National Collage Society. I have been juried into many shows throughout the Southwest in the last few years.

A native of Texas, I chose to move to Albuquerque with my husband Jack in l981 and wouldn't live anywhere else. I am currently showing in Amapola Gallery in Old Town,Fisher Gallery, 1620 Central, both in Albuquerque, plus the Museum Gift Shop at the Albuquerque Museum.

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New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall Show, 2009
NMWS Spring Show, First Place & Honorable Mention, May 2009
Pikes Peak Watercolor Internation Show, 2009, 2005
New Mexico State Fair Fine Arts Show, 2009
Wyoming Watercolor 23rd National Exhibit, Honorable Mention, 2008
Bardean Miniature Arts Honorable Mention Mixed Media, April, 2008
Western Federation of WC Societies Exhibit, Honorable Mention, 2007
International Society of Acrylic Painters Show, May 2008, 2007, San Luis Obispo, Ca.
SLMM Celebration Show, Sept. 2006, Arts Alliance Gallery, ABQ, NM
International Society of Experimental Artists Annual Exhibit, Oct. 2004, July 2006
Texas & Neighbors Regional Show, April 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2001, Irving, Texas
Miniature Arts Bardean, Honorable Mention Watercolor, April 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001
Arizona Watercolor Assoc. Spring Show Presidents Award, May 2006, 2007, 2005, 2004
Western Colorado Watercolor National Show, March 2006, Grand Junction, Co.
Soul Shrines, Society of Layerists in Multi Media, January 2006, Las Cruces, NM NMWS Fall Show 2008, 2006, 2005, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, Albuquerque, NM
Watercolor Wyoming XX Annual National Exhibit, October, 2005, Sheridan, Wyo.
NM State Fair Fine Arts Show, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001 Honorable Mention National League of American Pen Women NM Exhibit, Sept. 2005, Socorro, NM, HM NMWS Signature Exhibition, August 2005, Albuquerque Museum, 2006 Socorro, NM
Pikes Peak Watercolor Society International Watermedia XIV, August 2005, CO.
NM Watercolor Society Spring Show, May 2001, 2003, 2004 Merit Award, 2005, 2006

New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall Show, Oct. 2004, Albuquerque, NM, Third Place, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
First Frontier Collage Society Exhibit, Sept-Oct. 2006, August 2004, Austin, Texas
Miniature Arts Bardean, Masterworks Show, April 2004, Albuquerque,
NM Third Place - Mixed Media
The 15th Annual Fine Arts Show, October 2003, Corrales, NM
Society of Layerists in Multimedia Annual Show, September 2003, Albuquerque, NM Arizona Watercolor Association National Exhibition, September 2003, Phoenix, AZ.
NMWS Signature Spring Show, 2002, 2003, Los Alamos, 2004, Carlsbad, NM
Arizona Watercolor Assoc. Fall Show, November 2002 and 2003, Phoenix, AZ.
Masterworks of New Mexico April, 2000, 2002, 2004, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico State Fair Hispanic Arts Show, September 2001, Honorable Mention,
Arizona Watercolor Association National Watercolor Exhibition 2000, Phoenix, AZ. and
Arizona Commission on the Arts Two-Year Traveling Exhibition