Personal Statement: I am based in Atlanta and my passion is painting oil on canvas.

I was influenced greatly on a trip to Colombia where my husband and I visited the personal art collection of Fernando Botero, a Colombian painter/sculptor. I am inspired by works from artists like Diego Rivera, Botero, Oswaldo Guyasamin, and my grandmother, Gloria Walters. She was an artist of clay sculptors and had a successful line of figures called "Glory Girls". I hope to one day be as talented and successful artistically as her. My other grandmother, Mary Louise Phillips, is also an artist whom I admire.