Honors and Credits 2010 Designed Tags for Tagged.com 2010 The Lanai Gallery Collection with PatioPizzaz.com Naples, Florida 2009-10 Art of Distinction Award - “Holiday Colors Show” SunDust Gallery, Mesa, AZ 2009 “Celebration of Fine Art”, Scottsdale, AZ. A ten week show. 2008 “Sip, Shop & Socialize” Raven Events at South Beach 2008 Lilly Oncology on Canvas – show to tour US for a year. 2006 – 07Member of Sonoran Art League 2006 – 08Member of SFAW (Santa Fe Art World) 2005 Participant in “Best of Scottsdale”, AZ 2003 Winner, The Graceful Envelope Contest, Smithsonian Postal Library 2003 16 works published in “Kaligrafi” in Turkey 1999 - 01 Built my own website and one other 1997 Finalist in the “Campbell’s Art of Soup Contest” 1989 - 97 Corporate and Private Commissions 1988 Cleveland Magazine, One of 88 “Most Interesting People” Award 1987 Western Reserve Calligrapher’s Show, at BP Building in Cleveland, Ohio Juried, Honorable Mention 1985 Greater Cleveland’s Enterprising Woman Magazine, Pacesetter Award 1985 Graphics ’85, Cleveland Convention Center, designed Logo 1985 Society of Scribes & Illuminators, Lay Member traveling exhibit for five months throughout England 1985 Hopper Papers, Award of Excellence, Letterhead Design 1984 O’Neils of Akron, Dept. Store, Valentine’s Day Demonstration 1984 - 95 Opened Art Galleries/Frame Shop 1983 - 89 WVIZ Auction, Public TV, fund raiser, donated artwork 1983 - 84 Beginners Calligraphy, Winter and Spring, taught at Wayne General and Technical College a division of Akron University 1981 - 86 Wonderful World of Ohio Mart, at Stan Hywet in Akron, Ohio, Official Scribe, designed grounds map and promo flyer 1983 Tri-County Arts & Crafts Show, Chapel Hill Mall, Akron, Ohio, Juried Second Place, mixed media 1983 Scripts & Scribes of Akron, one of the original founders 1983 Wadsworth Traveling Library – Purchase Award - No More Kitty, Kitty, Kitty 1978 - 79 Art League of Bedford, Exhibit Chairwoman
Corporate Commissions and Collections
Forest City Enterprises Carnegie Capital Management WEWS TV 5 WVIZ TV 25 Public TV Northeast Ohio Apartment Assoc. Building Owners and Mgrs. Assoc.President, BP America, London, Eng. Weiss Advertising Greater Cleveland Growth Assoc. Downtown Business Council Playhouse Square Assoc. Penton Publishing Oberlin College Cleveland State University Oak Tree Restaurant, Dallas, TX Oro Valley AZ, Mayor’s Office United Church of Christ, Chicago, IL Dix and Eaton Wadsworth Public Library Delores Knowlton Realtors Sherwin Williams Paint Cornerstone Log and Frame Aunty M’s Embroidery Designs Franciscan Renewal Center, AZ …………………and many more
Private Collections
Lorna Barrett of TV 5 Bill Gordon, formerly of TV 5 Tony Harris, PM Magazine now with CNN Kathy Brugette, PM Magazine Bill Cosby Tom Wilson, Creator of Ziggy, cartoon strip …………………and many more
Artist Statement
I have been an artist and calligrapher for over 40 years. While exploring all kinds of mediums, I always came back to my love of the letter form and the use of watercolor to compliment the words. I became a member in many local, national and international art guilds and organizations. In the 1980’s I did as many as 26 art shows and exhibits, juried and non-juried, annually that developed my own clientele.
While accumulating many awards and recognition’s I began speaking and doing demonstrations on TV and to local groups. Since then, I have owned three Art Galleries, a Gift Shop and a Coffee Shop, all of which exhibited and sold my artwork as well as other artists.
Since 1995 I worked on many corporate and personal commissions as well as a calligraphy book of original religious poems. I authored and illustrated a cookbook of my family recipes. My medium usually consists of watercolors, inks, gouaches for miniatures and acrylics on canvas. My acrylics are bright, bold and colorful. I developed a thick edge on the petals of my flowers giving them a unique 3-D effect so they play with the light as well as giving them texture. Being inspired by Georgia O'Keefe at an early age, I love getting up close and personal with nature.
As a realist I’m very detailed with my watercolor miniature paintings. I like to capture an almost photographic quality of memories of years gone by. Yet, with my acrylic paintings I love to get bold and bright with my colors and sometimes I inject a bit of humor with my whimsical southwest.
As one of the winners in the Graceful Envelope Contest in 2003, our paintings remain on exhibit at the Smithsonian in the Postal Museum. I also won “Honorable Mention” in the Campbell’s Art of Soup Contest. But since moving from Ohio to Arizona in 2003 I sold my work in Old Town Scottsdale as a resident artist, painting on site and in Carefree. I was in 'Best of Scottsdale' 2005 and sold over 14 canvases that summer.
In 2007 I prepared 65 of my paintings archived to make into Limited Edition GiClee’s. I am presently looking for a publisher/or gallery to represent my work and take exclusivity. My Artist Bio, Statement and Certificate of Authenticity come with every original painting I sell.
Since I was sixteen I have always been creative. Like eating, breathing and sleeping, painting is a necessity of life for me. The joy of painting is only second to the joy I get when people view/buy my artwork. “I'm a happy lady and enjoy making people who view my work, smile.”
