My career began in the 1970s when a friend asked if I would do a pen and ink of her homeplace. From there, I began taking commissions around Raleigh. These grew into watercolor-enhanced house portraits that sold around the USA. I expanded into fine art while taking watercolor classes under artists such as Bill Mangum of Raleigh NC, Skip Lawrence of Maine, and Vera Dickerson of Roanoke VA, plus various workshops in the Carolinas.  I studied perspective and composition in Greensboro NC, Roanoke VA, and St. Louis MO. I was juried into the Virginia Watercolor Society and the North Carolina Watercolor Society and won several exhibition awards around Martinsville VA and Wilkesboro NC. My paintings and prints sold in galleries in Greensboro, Raleigh, and Winston Salem, NC. I published a series of prints of historic Greensboro and Blowing Rock NC. I worked actively in art leagues in Martinsville VA and Wilkesboro NC. 

My focus is impressionism and abstract paintings which include landscapes, skyscapes, sunsets, scenery, beach and water scenes, florals, children, pets, the Blue Angels - anything that catches my eye that's beautiful! I continue doing house portrait commissions in pen and ink and watercolor and have painted several Pensacola homes, including house portraits for the annual Joyce Turner awards for the North Hill Preservation Association.

I have painted several series of paintings and continue adding to the series regularly: “The Blue Angels,” “Sand Dunes,” “Skies,” and “Florals.”