My love of art and craft started in childhood. My memories are of winning poster contests for tickets to theatre plays, to drawing on canvas with crayons in grade school that the principal would hang on the wall in her office.      

     I did ceramics for a few years. The use of molds was too confining to me, so I painted murals on tile using china paint. I hope that some of my work still adorns some kitchens and baths.

     I won an undergraduate scholarship in art from Oklahoma A&M. My favorite subjects were ceramics and portrait painting with oils, watercolors, and acrylics.

     Later I attended a commercial art school where figure painting was stressed. I studied and drew bone structure, muscles, and skin. I worked as a commercial artist for a short time, then I opened a studio and gallery in Sherman, Texas where I taught different types of painting classes.

     Painting on a flat surface was still not satisfying enough, so in 1999 I began making dolls from paper to cloth and finally found polymer clay. Polymer clay is now the medium with which I prefer to express myself artistically.

     With each doll I create I have improved and learned. I have also learned from the other doll artists I have come to admire.

A Selection of Some of My Dolls 

Dolls that I created from my paintings.

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