"Quarantine Painting: Burst of Hope Day 44" Painting

I paint 5 days a week at my studio at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. My studio is open by appointment and on the last Friday of every month . You will find me on the fifth floor in studio 510A. I am the daughter of an industrial engineer and an artist. My dad was the engineer, and I learned about spatial relationships and design from watching him build model airplanes. Both parents encouraged me to draw and to make things with my hands. My mother was a creative person. It was the 70s, so she was home with us. She taught me to sew, which is something that I still love to do. I graduated from Ohio University and worked as a graphic designer for 20 years. In 2007, I trained at the Midwest Culinary Institute in Cincinnati, to be a personal chef. I operated a small catering and personal chef business for 4 years. Since 2013, I have had the opportunity to refocus my career path, again, and to make fine art. I am a painter working in several media. In 2020, I started a large series of still life paintings in oil and cold wax. The perspective of those paintings interested me very much, and I have continued to create paintings that are similar, but done in torn paper. I do a lot of commission work. It is a joy to work with clients to create special paintings for their homes. We sit down and talk about ideas. I design a concept, then provide images to help the client visualize the concept. Once we arrive at a plan, I create the original artwork and document the process as it unfolds. My paintings are held in private collections in the US (Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Texas) and in Milan, Italy.