I began creating art as soon as I could hold a pencil and use scissors to cut paper. Making art is all I ever wanted to do.
My Dad, an amateur artist, encouraged my innate creativity, sending me to the adult classes, when I was quite young, at the Houston Museum of Fine Art. I thrived learning to draw the human body and knew that I had found my calling.
I continued to major in visual art at the University of Texas in Austin TX. I took a jewelry making class and fell for sculpting in wax, and casting in gold and silver. I set up my own jewelry studio and made custom design pieces for the next 24 yrs.
After moving to the Denton TX area, I went back to art school at the University of North Texas and studied for my masters in watercolor. focus was on the human form in yoga poses and later on large scale watercolor portraits.
My yoga series deals with the emotional element of balance, balance between light and dark, good and evil, yin and yang. I am fascinated with making art from found objects, hot pressed papers activated with watercolors, inks, acrylics, and enamel paints, and magazine images. The imaged-based shapes are then torn and cut and arranged with a simplified female figure in a yoga poses in a surreal environment. The result is the recognition of the autobiographical characteristics through time.
"The Art of Aging" series of large-scale watercolor portraits is telling the story about aging and the significant changes we experience physically, emotionally and spiritually. these paintings are creating fascinating conversations about what is considered beautiful, meaningful, and outrageous.
My subjects are young women and men from the college town of Denton, TX. They have chosen to adorn themselves in a variety of ways with piercing, tattoos, or extreme hair styles that make them intrigue to age. I use my imagination and knowledge of the aging process in conceptualizing my subjects by 60+ years older.
I continue to create art in my studio in Denton TX. living with my sister, Holly Hunsicker, and my cat, Yentyl. I have recently branched out into sculpting life size heads out of clay and whimsical pieces, like my totem poles, and I continue to create collages and watercolor portraits. I have branched out to create pencil drawings of your loved ones and even your pets.