Born and raised in Owensboro, Kentucky, I began my love for art as a child at around 7 years old, and it comes from both sides of my family. I would watch my father’s sister oil paint and was captivated by it. She gave me my first set of chalk pastels and a sketch book for my 8th birthday. My father was also creative. He built an art studio in our backyard back in the 1970s. He had a potter’s wheel and molds for ceramics and a kiln. I loved to paint ceramics out there and watch as he taught ceramic classes to his co-workers on Wednesday nights. Later in life, he had a wood shop, where he made things on his lathe by turning wood. He passed on in 2009, and I now cherish everything he made. My mother is an oil painter. She and I took lessons from her aunt and cousins when I was young. My two sisters are also artists as well as some cousins and aunts.
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