To instill an emotional response to my images, both positive, and hopeful.

My intension is to create bold, colorful interpretations of the Florida landscape, amazing flowrs, and figures.

I started painting as a hobby after retiring from teaching in the public schools, but it has blossomed into something that I am very passionate about. My preferred medium is working with oils.
While developing my skills as an artist, I am open to painting many different subjects. I enjoy perusing antique and consignment shops to find a variety of objects to render in a still life set up.
I love to travel and have been greatly influenced by the art of the places I have visited from the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa. I am also influenced by many of the impressionist painters, with lots of loose brushstrokes. I now have a home in Estero, Florida and enjoy painting the beautiful wildlife and flora here.
My hope is that the viewer will have a sense of the passion that I put into my painting, and walk away with seeing the beauty of the subject in a unique way.

My passion for creating and visualizing art pieces started when I was very young living in Cuba. In March 2020, I moved back to Florida from Houston, Texas where I showed my work in galleries and juried shows around the Houston area. Before moving to Houston, I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Technology at the University of Central Florida. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to work for Disney Animation Studios in Orlando Florida where I fell in love with animation and special effects, the experience and knowledge that I acquired plus my degree permitted me to teach Computer Visual Effects at Full Sail Real World Education School in Orlando, Florida.
At present, I am dedicating my time to experimenting with different styles and mediums (watercolor, oil, acrylic, wood, pastels, color pencils, paper) creating works from ideas and inspiration collected from the past and always incorporating my experience into futures works.

My creative process is a combination of the relentless pursuit of technical skill, without losing the "vibe" or feeling of a certain scene. The trick is to balance technique, value and color with the emotions and childlike wonder I feel in the presence of various situations. Sandhill Cranes are incredible to see just wandering around my backyard, wind tearing through sails on a beam reach makes me giddy, even just looking up into the ever changing sky is inspirational. Being cognizant of the emotions felt in a situation and pitting them against the technicalities of a color wheel or value chart is a pleasant tension, a yin/yang mental tightrope walk that breeds its own forward momentum.

I have been a full time artist since 2014. I studied Watercolor & Mixed Media Collage in California and ever since then, I have never looked back. Im blessed to have a home studio and I love creating on a daily basis. I'm in love with bold, bright colors and the brighter the better for me. Creating daily is a must for me. I have to say.. Art is my life. My life is Art.

My work is the result of exploration. I am a process painter and enjoy using acrylics to get many different layers quickly. The fun comes with unexpected results, and I like that one has to puzzle the images out. Using a random application of gesso on a blank surface, causes interesting shapes and unexpected textures, creating a sense of history.

I love glass. So many fusible gorgeous colors...opaque, transparent, iridized, textured. Gets my creative juices flowing. Making pretty things, home accents, whimsical figures. So much fun. What a blast!

Through painting, I tell stories of peace, beauty, and love, and explores the very mystery of life. In order to achieve this, I work in a wide variety of mediums, including oils, acrylics, and pastels, and in a wide range of styles, from abstract to realism.

I am an artist at heart who has created art in many forms and media for all my life.

My ceramic work is defined by my love of the human form.
A childhood love of fantasy finds its way into my work. I express the absurdity of life while drawing influence from unexpected sources like the lyrics of music and nursery rhymes.
I have a clear vision of a finished piece before I start. With this idea in mind I immediately get started with a combination of wheel thrown pieces, coils and slabs. I alter by pinching, cutting and adding clay until my idea emerges.
My pieces are decorated with colored slips and underglazes while still wet and then fired to 1830°. After adding pigmented washes and glazes my final firing to 2232° completes the process.

I make my art to bring joy in to the lives of those who view it. Seeing people’s surprise that they are looking at glass pieces is a bonus!