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| Sculpting has always been my dream. Life and all living things on this planet have always been my love. Both have now become my life, love, and passion.
From the time I could hold a crayon or pencil, I have drawn and placed on paper or in clay living images and expressions of importance to me. My earliest artistic “passion” was creating images of horses. “Horse” was and still is a very special creature and friend for me. My artistic experience in elementary school had a significant impact on me. My supportive teachers entered several of my works of art into competitions held in Amarillo, Texas, my hometown. I was fortunate in receiving not only encouragement but also awards of merit for these creative efforts. In addition, I was blessed to experience the expertise, coaching and support of a gifted watercolorist, Clarence Kincaid, who taught art class during my second-grade year. Being treated as an “artist” and not as a 7-year old girl, Clarence Kincaid opened my eyes to “seeing” and my hands to imparting what I “see”. Technical teachings capped that gift from him. Although art and creativity were my passion and dream, the real world intruded, and I was convinced by those who loved me and by life’s events that I must support myself through more traditional means than art. So, it retreated to something I created in my personal time, which grew briefer and briefer over the years of attending school, raising two children, and creating a career in bar association management. Life left little in time and energy for my artistic endeavors, and eventually I suffered from this loss. One day, however, I could deny my artistic passions no longer. Denying that portion of me was slowly “killing” me, as it seemed to me. So, I took a leap of faith, abandoned my career and life as a state bar executive director, and began sculpting and creating my life in a new way. Placing my hands into clay for the first time as I redirected my life was like “coming home”. I truly felt as if I had been sculpting forever, spanning the centuries of time. Sculpting to me is greater than creating images in clay, although that is a part of creation. I am but a channel, with clay being the tool for life and energies to emerge. When sculpting, it feels to me as if the images, energies and very being of that which is being created is with me, speaks through me, and sends his or her very being through my hands into the clay. I am honored to be the vehicle for that sculpture’s creation. Through the years, together with experiencing that art is a vehicle of energy expression, I have also expanded those abilities with other related energy work. I have become a Reiki Master and learned to use energy as a healing tool. I also study, practice and teach Tien T’ai Chi and Tien Tae Jitsu, and have learned to use these disciplines not only for my own personal growth and enhancement but also as a means to further the use and focus of energy. My life experience from my many travels and my personal and professional experiences have added to this wealth of knowledge that is a part of what I seek to impart into my work. I was once told by an artist and “oil painting” instructor of mine, Ted Hogsett of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that in order to be truly great, an artist “must suffer”. I now believe that this all-encompassing statement defines “suffer” not as our usual image of a starving artist, but rather experiencing and learning all that life and our environment presents to us—this wealth of learning, experience and growth is part of what helps the artist create living, breathing, and “feeling” works of art. For me, life is art and art is life. Both are a part of the whole and embody the yin and yang of creation . . . the changing and merging of energy. I love being a part of this passion and truly love creating living, healing, teaching works of art both for myself and for those who view and who own my sculptures. My work has no subject limitation as life and experience have no such limitation. All life is to be celebrated, and my hope is that my creations impart this joy and passion for life and living. I offer my thanks to you for joining me in this celebration of life. So be it! |
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| | Equine | | | Animals Domestic | | | Animals Wildlife | | | Figurative | | | Children | |
| | Western | | | Native American | | | Lifesize&Monumental | | | Work-in-Progress | |
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