ABOUT THE ARTIST
As a child growing up in Eastern rural Ohio, on summer days Sandy walked into the surrounding woods behind her home, the various shapes, colors, and sounds of the wooded rooms she played in left their mark. Stone colors deepened in the shadows of the box canyon walls that previously housed the North American Indians.
As a young girl she doodled, drew, and painted. In her high school senior year an opportunity came to go on a class trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, for a weekend. During free time she opted to go see the Taft Art Museum. Country girl in the big city hopped aboard a bus for the first time and walked the halls of the old Taft home, gazing into the faces of master works. She felt in awe, emotionally full. In college she entered a small campus art show and received the first ribbon for artwork.
So, you would have thought the art trail would begin. But survival, making a living, meeting a guy, marrying, and having a child, all the routine rites of passage, happened first. Creativity did not leave, but took other forms within a more domestic scene.
She read about an adult education art class at the local high school and signed up. The images of the early drawings tucked away, along with the Taft Museum post cards, began to weave a story about art in her life. Sandy wanted to make art.
Tentatively reaching out, the first class chosen, entry into the art world began. A late bloomer, she wanted to push the process, naively thinking, “How hard could it be?” Many years later, a thousand moments of despair, many art classes and workshops, the zigzag trail evolved to find the understanding and the doing of art. Sandy continues the journey, experiencing the highest highs and the lowest lows, but making art. The art process never ends, but rejuvenates, heals heart, mind, and body. When signing a painting encourage other late bloomers as well as young students to enjoy the art process.
Sandy lives in Mc Kinney, Texas, with her husband, Norm, and dogs, Maxx, Coco and Sadie.
Artist Statement
Natural forms take precedence in my works in graphite, colored pencil and clay sculpture. Viewing the painting by Claude Monet at the Kimball Art Museum Impressionist exhibition, I stood weeping, the greens of the tree drawing me in, feeling as if I stood inside that tree, experiencing the color, the secret inner being of tree, earth, and self. I desire a well-rounded understanding of art, from its history, the basics of drawing, the creation of shapes and color, and the essence of each artwork. Experimenting within various mediums, finding a new perspective on looking at the world around me, and a different way of representing what I see on paper..
Education
Education in oil painting began in 1976. In 1995 Sandy resumed oil painting classes. Mentored under Dr. Marilyn Todd-Daniels of Woodsong Institute of Art, Whitewright, TX. Studied Art History, Drawing, Composition and Design, Color Theory, and Plein Aire painting. Studied at CCCC in Drawing I/II under Marilyn Todd-Daniels, Watercolor under Kathy Cotter-Smith. Year long Life Drawing class under the influence of the book Nicolaides’ The Natural Way to Draw, Watercolor under Babs Light. Colored Pencil workshops with Pat Averil, Maggie Toole, Janie Gildow, Kristy Kutch, Linda Lucas-Hardy, Elizabeth Holster, Cecile Baird, Gemma Gylling. Master class with William Patterson in 2006/2007.
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