Artist’s Statement
My first memory related to art is at the age of five in kindergarten at Oakdale Elementary School in Salina, Kansas. Wearing a little painting smock, I remember standing before a child’s two-sided easel with the paint pots in the tray at the bottom and being totally mesmerized by the moving blob of red paint that I had just brushed on the paper. I watched it run all the way down the length of the paper. I was hooked!