I have been making art my whole life.
I don’t remember myself when I wasn’t making pictures. My work is where I make sense of the world. Through 30+ years of traveling, raising children, and working as Business Manager of Claude Skelton Design (now SkeltonSprouls), I have always maintained a serious studio practice.
Working primarily in oil paint on canvas, paper, and wood, I employ both figurative and landscape imagery in a nonliteral approach to painting. Informed by art history and its traditional emphasis on drawing, color, and spatial relationships to convey the heartfelt essence of being alive in the world—a focus embraced and questioned over millennia by people gazing beyond the surface—the process of iconic image making has always been essential to my practice. I am interested in the not-knowing, the figuring-out, the flashes of light in the darkness.
I have been represented in solo and group shows by galleries in Baltimore MD, Chicago IL, Florence Italy, New Orleans LA, Richmond VA, Key West FL, Charlottesville VA, Petersburg VA, and Winston-Salem NC