I am a self-taught outsider artist born (1953) and resident in Rockford, Illinois. I have been working full-time as a painter for more than thirty years and have produced a large amount and variety of artwork ranging from feminine portraits to fantasy tableaux. My paintings, mostly done in boldly colored acrylic, are representational, but stylized, finished and refined in technique, yet retaining the naive, sincere, and sometimes whimsical quality of traditional Midwestern folk art. Taking up art only as an adult and developing my own methods, I began exhibiting nationally in 1988 when I...more
