I’ve been creating art in various forms for about 20 years, with most of my accumulated creative instincts being self-taught.  In past years, I’ve taken occasional classes in different art mediums, but my need for dimension, texture, and depth wasn’t satisfied with routine instruction.  So I continued on my own with acrylic paint as my main medium  and began adding clay, glass, wire, paper, fibers, beads, sticks, or anything else I could find to my canvases.  Currently when painting,  I prefer water-based oil, but at times find myself coming back to charcoal or pencils.  Now I’m finding myself moving on & enjoying wire bending..designing both sculptures and loads of jewelry.  I found a whole new world of beads, gemstones and different gauges of wire,  and clay is always close to my bench.  Nothing is safe from my grasp – or imagination.