Where Texas Light Becomes Art

How It Began

I came to art later in life — and that's exactly the point. After earning a degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin, I spent decades telling other people's stories. It wasn't until 2014 that I picked up my first tesserae and began telling my own.

Mosaic found me through books, workshops, and a willingness to learn by doing. I was drawn to its inherent honesty: each fragment is complete in itself, yet only meaningful as part of a whole. In 2022 I added acrylic abstraction to my practice — a discipline that gave me freedom to let color and form move intuitively, without constraint.

Today my studio sits on the North Shore of Lake Travis, where the limestone bluffs, cedar hillsides, and wide Texas sky are a constant source of inspiration. Some pieces begin with a shard of smalti glass and grow outward. Others start with a wash of pigment and find their edges later. All of them begin with the shore.