I find  a little story about how I fell in love with the process of art so special to me and you may enjoy it too.  For most people, when thinking about their childhood they see mental pictures of where they lived, friends, pets, or a favorite toy.  Along with these mental pictures, are short films that repeat some unforgettable memories that were significant to them, special moments like; the feeling of flying when swinging in the playground, meeting a pet for the first time, or seeing the smile of a special person in the past. For me my favorite little memory to take out and watch lately is one that has been sitting on the shelf for awhile. It plays the scene when I first learned how to draw a horse. I remember standing outside my mom's bedroom (I would stand here a lot and just watch her. We would sing, and sometimes I would ask her to please let me into my makeup box she intentionally placed out of my reach. Haha!). This time she asked me to come sit next to her on the edge of her bed and she pulled out a blank sheet of paper and a pencil. She started to show me a simple line drawing of how to draw a horse's head. It is interesting how this little moment would be the beginning of my love for art. I would repeat this simple line drawing until it was not enough. I had to make the horse look real. Then it was no longer just horses but people and animals. Fast forward to the past two years, I finally got into painting because my mom wanted a painting of a horse for Christmas. This painting is titled "By my Spirit" and can be viewed in the acrylic gallery on this website. It is the beginning of my first body of paintings and is the beginning of my desire to take painting seriously. I pull this memory out more lately because of my increased desire to be an artist, but more notably because of the recent passing of my mother. This loss has manifested into many paintings -- specifically horse paintings. After she passed I realized the pivotal role she played not only in my life but my beginning as an artist. 

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When looking back on memories we can see beginnings that we did not identify as beginnings at the time. What began as a desire to imitate the image of a horse turned into my desire to connect with people through paintings that can communicate what words cannot. I create paintings and capture images that exhibit beauty and messages about life that are worthy of rumination. 

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