My painting style is based on what I love and find endlessly fascinating – light, color and the unconscious feelings they arouse in me. The inspiration for my art comes from so many places, beginning with my childhood memories of Miami, Florida, where I grew up. It was a place of sensuality, tropical colors, and people of different nationalities and cultures – a place of vibrant, beautifully adorned Latino women and those around them. I try to recreate in my paintings the feelings that these experiences aroused in me – the joy of being alive, of being able to experience the intensity of color and light all around me, and the experience and joy of being a woman.

Travels to museums in Italy and France greatly influenced my painting style. I was completely drawn to the expressiveness of the Post-Impressionists, the colors and subjects of Matisse and Van Gogh, the sensuality of Gauguin and Lautrec. These painters spoke to me in ways that went beyond words and explanations. And this is what I try to achieve in my own way with my paintings…feelings that can’t be explained, only experienced viscerally. It’s only paint on canvas; yet, miraculously, it can provoke feelings of being alive. This is what I try to achieve. Currently I am working on a series of abstract women using mixed media, materials and anything I can think of! I use live models for inspiration and then go from there. It’s great fun. My studio is open anytime to just come and look around!

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Shows and Awards:

• Grafica Art Gallery, solo show, "Play, Paint, Love!", 2010
• Concrete Ocean Gallery, solo show, "Basic Instincts", 2010
• Third Degree Glass Factory, Show with Mary Bearman, "To Life!" 2009
• Old Orchard Gallery, Show with Tom Hunt, 2009
• Gateway Gallery – Guest Artist, May, June 2009
• St. Louis Naughtigras – 2009
• Habitat for Humanity", Harrisburg, PA - 2009
• “Passion for Painting” – 2008, Art show at “The Desoto” with Mary Bearman and Henryk Ptasiewicz
• Art & Air, 2006, 2007– Webster Groves, Missouri
• Art & Air, 2006 – Award for Painting – Second Place
• Belas Artes – 2007 “Hearts” Collaborative Show with Henryk Ptasiewicz
• Belas Artes – 2006, 2007 Lafayette Square Paint-Out
• Belas Artes Quick Paint Floral Competition – 2006 – 1st Place
• Third Degree Glass Factory, 2007
• Lafayette Square Guilded Age Quick Paint Exhibition 2007- 1st Place
• Studio Altius “Let Them Eat Art” – 2008, Honorable Mention
• Drive Agency 2008– Environmental collaboratives with Henryk Ptasiewicz
• The Moulin, Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Fashion Show - 2008
• World Trade Center – Clayton,Missouri – Art St. Louis 2006
• Fleishman Hillard – Art St. Louis 2006
• Venus Envy, 2004, 2005
• Women’s Caucus, St. Louis Branch
• St. Louis Artists Guild

Current Galleries and Exibits:

• Linda White Gallery, Boca Rotan, FL
• Grafica Fine Art Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
• Cyranos Café and Wine Bar , Saint Louis, MO
• Mama Figlia, 1221 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO