How fortunate I was to teach public school art for twenty two years.  My goal was to promote my students’ art, to build their esteem, and to facilitate in scholarship programs.  Now retired after a total of 42 years in various levels of education, I travel a hopeful path as an artist.  It is time to promote my own art! As of late, I’ve been experimenting and developing my skills and processes. I find inspiration everywhere I look, and that inevitably filters down to my work.  Delight finds me when I look closely at small sections of buildings, vegetation, and every day things we take for granted.   As I perceive the image and move my interpretation to canvas or paper, I stretch what is typically a structured image into color experimentation using arbitrary, analogous, and complimentary colors.