I began my artistic career in early childhood drawing portraits and writing poetry. Many life drawing classes later, the first ten years of my art career I worked as a graphic artist for an ad agency in Kansas City, followed by working for a major greeting card company. A death in the family prompted a switch in careers which kept me busy and distracted for many years, then finally a few years ago I returned to my passion of creating art. I am mainly a self-taught artist, but I have taken workshops and/or classes from Cynthia Rosen, Gary Tucker, Christine Lashley, Albert Handell. and Hugh Greer. I have also been influenced by many wonderful artists in this area. I live and take time to breathe in the beauty in New Mexico, have shown my work several times at the Railyard Art Market in Santa Fe, been juried into the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Community Gallery and the Los Alamos Arts Council Fair, and find myself with a passion to fine-tune that nuance of beauty and light in landscape, life scenes and florals.
- Note- I don’t use AI in my artwork. I love drawing and painting and simply choose this path in my artwork. While I enjoy some of the AI art, it isn’t my calling. So, what exactly is AI Art? In short, it is artwork (visual, audio, or otherwise) generated by a machine learning process—that is, a machine has “learned” some information, and used it to produce a new AI-generated image. Humans may have collected the data, or written instructions for the machine to use, but the process of creation is left to the machine.