About the artist:

I have been professionally painting for many years, beginning with commissioned portraits way back in high school. In college my concentration switched from painting to sculpture, specifically lost-wax aluminum casting and steel fabrication. Throughout college and in the years after I won several awards and art competitions with my work. Since then I have worked as a sculptor for a water park feature manufacturer, sculpting their life-size prototypes. From there I worked as a sign painter, and then as a muralist and figure painter for a wooden carousel manufacturer. Because of my work for the carousel company, my paintings can be viewed in multiple states and countries—you may have even seen or rode on one of those very carousels. One of my favorite things is catching glimpses of those same carousels in movies with carousel scenes. Beginning a week after my carousel days ended in 2014, I began my teaching career as a middle and high school art teacher—and though my previous art careers and gallery exhibitions were things to be proud of, I always tell my students that those were the stepping stones that brought me to my dream job, teaching them!

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