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For me, painting is the product of my life experiences.   What I am and what I believe and care about is what I put on canvas.   I am a semi-abstract and sometimes abstract painter.  Sometimes  my style is hard to define.   My paintings always become a memory, a place I've seen a moment in time where the colors and shapes intrigued me.   I have traveled around the world, had the pleasure of growing up in Oregon and lived in Breckenridge Colorado for many years.   Those places have left a deep impression and the rivers, lakes, ocean, farms, jungles and many other things reappear over and over in my work.

Normally, I paint a in series so in the beginning, I am usually only conscious of that.  I always have a general idea of a subject  and I usually know what I want to say but let the creative process tell me how to say it.   Once I have the general theme arranged, then I spend a great deal of time working with technique, making sure the composition is sound.     Sometimes after many layers and changes it starts to pull itself together; then I am able to go forward and finish the work.  I prefer to work with acrylics, but occasionally return to oils or transparent watercolors.

EDUCATION   University of Oregon, Studies Fine Art, Foreign Languages:  Arizona State University, Studies BFA Fine Art

WORKSHOPS

Millard Sheets 1979, Tom Hill 1983, Glen Bradshaw 1986, Robert Wood 1995, Skip Lawrence 2008

TEACHING

Central Arizona College, Beginning and Intermediate Oil and Watercolor:  Private Classes and Workshops  in Composition and Color

JURIED EXHIBITIONS,  SHOWS & AWARDS, GALLERIES

Oregon Watercolor Society Juried 1978 2nd Place

Tombstone Art Exhibition 1981 1st Place Oil, 2nd place watercolor

Tombstone Art Exhibition 1982 "Best of Show"

Tombstone Art Exhibition 1983 "Best of Show"

Rocky Mountain National Water media Juried 1989

Gallery A, Taos New Mexico 1980

Arizona Watercolor Association  1987 Juried Spring Show

Arizona Watercolor Association 1987  Juried Winter Show, Arizona Watercolor Association, 1987 Merit Award

Arizona Watercolor Association, 1985 Juried Spring Show

C. G. Rein Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ  1985

Arizona Watercolor Association, 1989  Juried Spring Show

Arizona Watercolor Association, 2000 Spring Show

Arizona Watercolor Association 1988 Juried Fall Show, Honorable Mention

Arizona State Fair 1991, 2nd Place Oil, Juried

Arizona State Fair, 1 oil, 1 watercolor 1992, 2nd place watercolor, Juried

Casa Grande Art Museum Juried Exhibition 1993 "Best of Show"

Chosen to provide cover for Casa Grande Chamber of Commerce Community Book 1991,

Seven Man Show, "The Seven" 1992,  Central Arizona College

CG Rein Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

Two Man show,  "Recent Works, Phyllis Wagonner and Sue Nosler Gray"

Arizona Watercolor Association National Juried Show 2000 Merchants Award,  Juror Dan Burt, Traveling Exhibition Arizona Commission on the Arts

Northern Arizona Watercolor Association 2002, Award of Excellence   juried by Pat Dews,

Sedona Art Center 2003 Juried Member Exhibition

Chosen to design layouts for "World at One"

Artemisia Gallery, Sedona, AZ., 2003,2004 

Arizona Artist Guild Annual Juried  2004, 2 oils,  1 mixed media, 1st Place

Arizona Watercolor Association, Juried Spring Show  2 watercolors,  2005

Arizona Artist Guild Juried, 1 Oil. Honorable Mention Award  2005

One-Man Exhibit,  Common Grounds, Round Rock, TX  Sept 2006,

One Man Show,  The Framers Gallery, Georgetown, Tx, 2007

Framers Gallery, Georgetown, TX. 2007, 08

Williamson County Art Guild, Newsletter Chair  2007,08

Texas Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibit 2008, Juror Jeanne Dobie,Merchant Award, Traveling exhibit 2008

Waterloo Waterloo Spring Exhibit 2008 , Austin Texas,  Second Place, juried by Skip Lawrence.

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