I had no background in art and I found a class in a local art store and it changed my life. Now,I study with various artists, enter my work in shows and even won a few ribbons.

I try to make my art uplifting and inspiring adding a little more beauty to my surroundings to make up for the years doing military applications.  I am a nature lover, animal rights activist, and “tree hugger”.  I attempt to take simple images in nature and life depicting them as a thing of beauty.  I use color for not only decorative purposes but an emotional effect.
Not having use of my left arm and having a life threatening allergy to wasp stings, I do not paint outside. I carry a camera around and take pictures, then do compositions in my studio. Some people give me photographs. and sometimes I combine several pictures to create one composition.

People ask whether I have always had this ability and never tapped into it or the brain trauma awakened some new part I never used before. That is something that only God knows.