About Me
As a third generation Texan, I trace my ancestors to humble, industrious, community-minded Swedish and bellicose, clannish German/Scottish immigrants who helped settle Texas. The attitudes of my predecessors frame the questions I ponder every day in my studio: "How much conformity? How much rebellion?"
I left San Antonio, my birthplace and home, after attending McNay Art Institute, San Antonio College and the University of Texas, Austin where I received my bachelor's degree. I received my Master of Art degree from the University of Missouri and did post-graduate work at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where I also taught.
After 50 years I returned to San Antonio to care for my mother, who had earlier inspired in me the same appreciation and excitement she had experienced as a young bride, when discovering the flamboyant culture and historic, architectural treasures of San Antonio. She led me, as a child, on enchanted explorations of missions, La Vallita, the Alamo, cathedrals, lawn shrines, beautiful, rustic, tinted adobe cottages and dramatic religious iconography. My imagination was charged.
Baltimore, East Hampton, New York and Washington D.C. were cities where I came under the influences of modern European art that contributed to my understanding of aesthetic predisposition and psychological intention in art making. I feel these great resources, education, galleries and museums of these cosmopolitan cities offered a depth to my expression. However, it was San Antonio that offered me the visceral, visual aesthetic impact that shaped the early foundation of my life as an artist.
I left San Antonio, my birthplace and home, after attending McNay Art Institute, San Antonio College and the University of Texas, Austin where I received my bachelor's degree. I received my Master of Art degree from the University of Missouri and did post-graduate work at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where I also taught.
After 50 years I returned to San Antonio to care for my mother, who had earlier inspired in me the same appreciation and excitement she had experienced as a young bride, when discovering the flamboyant culture and historic, architectural treasures of San Antonio. She led me, as a child, on enchanted explorations of missions, La Vallita, the Alamo, cathedrals, lawn shrines, beautiful, rustic, tinted adobe cottages and dramatic religious iconography. My imagination was charged.
Baltimore, East Hampton, New York and Washington D.C. were cities where I came under the influences of modern European art that contributed to my understanding of aesthetic predisposition and psychological intention in art making. I feel these great resources, education, galleries and museums of these cosmopolitan cities offered a depth to my expression. However, it was San Antonio that offered me the visceral, visual aesthetic impact that shaped the early foundation of my life as an artist.
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