ARTIST STATEMENT

Many of my sculptures have dealt with the repetition of layers in wood, clay and metal. At first, they represented civilizations and ancestral and social patterns. However, as I got closer to nature and to my own center, I sensed a deeper meaning. I began to acknowledge and appriciate the presence of the divine in everythin. My art became stronger as I focus on the two fondations of reality-matter and spirit.

The matter (or material) i use represents our connections with our physical temporal life, our natural environment and each other. It includes broken gates, weathered doors and old lumber. I recieve the old wood and use a repetition of vertical and horizontal lines to represent the substance of being - the tactile, the physical and the visible.

The space between the strips illuminates and defines them. In its light is the spirit that is the essence of us all. It is within and aroud all matter, and it is as much a part of my sculpture as the wood. This light has a curious way of softening the strict lines. Some of the sculptures seem to push the edge of balance, while others have a whimsical nature. My pieces present paradoxes and can be turned in different ways, appearing to form a whole new shape. The different relationship between the matter and spirit - inside and out, closed and open, full and empty, light and shadow represent two aspects of our own reality.

I have drawn inspiration from a quote from a Robert Browning poem that hangs on the wall in my studio:

There is an innermost center in us all
Where truth abides in fullness
And to know rather consists
In opening out a way
Where the imprisoned splendor may escape
Than in effecting entrance for a light
Suppose to be without.

RESUME

Media

Fabric/folk applique tapestries
Sculpture - metal, clay, stone, wood

Education

San Antonio Art Institute - BFA Program
Mt. Vernon College, SMU, Hockaday School

Studied Under

1968	Martha Mood, Wilanna Bristow
1981	George Parrino
1989	Bill Fitzgibbons
1994	Louis Turner, Bill Hocker, Coppini
1994	Anderson Ranch, Doug Casebeer
1995	Anderson Ranch, Stephen de Staebler
1995	Southwest Craft Center
1996	Elisabet Ney Sculpture Museum, Billie Caselli Clark
1997	Anderson Ranch, James Surls
2000	Anderson Ranch, Jo Stone
2002	Anderson Ranch, William Chrisenberry
2003	Anderson Ranch, Robert Brady

Exhibitions

1981	St. Mark's Church, Jacksonville, Florida
1982	Gatehouse Gallery - Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
1982	San Antonio Ecumenical Center for Health and Religion
1983	St. Mark's Episcopal Church, San Antonio - juried show
1984	Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio
1985	Cappy's Restaurant, San Antonio
1986	Abilene Civic Center
1986	Fredericksburg, Texas
1987	University of Texas Health Science Centr, San Antonio
1987	Corpus Christi Invitational
1989	Cappy's Restaurant, San Antonio
1989	Final Straw, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989	Order of the Alamo - Cort Artist, San Antonio
1989	Southwest Craft Center Gallery, San Antonio
1989	Guadalupe Cultural Art Center "Hecho A Mano", San Antonio
1992	San Antonio Art Institute - Juried Art Show
1993	International Sculpture Conference, San Antonio
1996	Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio - Retrospective Show of Tapestries
1999	Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio Red Dot Show
2001	Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin Red Dot Show
2002	South Texas Outdoor Sculpture Echibition, San Antonio
2002	Southwest School of Art & Craft Gala and Art Sale, San Antonio
2003	Dallas Museum of Art and the Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas
2003	Blue Star Art Space Red Dot
2003	Texas Society of Scuptors Exhibition, San Antonio
2003	Joan Grona Gallery - one woman show - San Antonio

Public Works

Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Ophthalmology Clinic, Houston
Youth Advocay Center, Dallas
Oncology Clinic, Nashville, Tennessee
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (on loan for seven years - no longer there)
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, El Paso
Christ Episcopal Church, Tyler
Morningside Manor, San Antonio
Chandler Nursing Home, San Antonio
Ecumenical Center for Health and Religion, San Antonio
Christ Episcopal Church, San Antonio
Two Churches - Virginia and New Zealand
St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church, Blanco, Texas
Strake Jesuit Museum, Houston, Texas

Private Works

Australia, England, Italy
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, DC

In Texas Abilence, Bergheim, Bryan, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Midland, New Braunfels

San Antonio collections include:
Dr. and Mrs. H.R. Aldredge, Mr, and Mrs. George Ames, Mrs. Teeta Ansley, Mrs. Betty Atwell, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Atwell, Ms. Adrienne Atwell, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Barenblat, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Bently, Mrs. James Billups, Mrs. Margaret C. Boldick, Mrs. Paul Braymen, Dr. and Mrs. George
Burkholder, Mr. and Mrs. James Cavender, Mrs. Carlton Church, Mrs. Bill Cody, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Ehrenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Fawcett, Mrs. George Fischer, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Flohr, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Foster, Mr. and Mrs. James Hayne, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Helland, Dr.
and Mrs. James Huff, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Johnson, Mrs. Alice Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. John
Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Lowry Mays, Mr. and Mrs. Steve McAllister, Mrs. Coco McAlpin, Mr. and
Mrs. Bud McGarth, Mr. and MRs. Phil Norman, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Oppenheimer, Mr. and Mrs. William Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Peacock, Dr. and Mrs. Dan Peavy,
Ms. Shirley Rushing Poteet, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reed, Mrs. Iris Rubin, Mr. and Mrs. Rollins
Rubsamen, Mr. Humberto Saldano, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sheerin, Mrs. Ann Sledge, Mrs. and Mrs. John
Steen, Mrs. Kaki Steves, Mrs. Dan Sullivan III, Mr. Dan Sullivan IV, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Swearingen,
Mrs. Lewis Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams