As an artist I am painting common things that I love, so I paint Mississippi. I care about our ever-changing common scenery of Mississippi and the memories I have from early childhood in north Mississippi on a small rural farm… and summer visits to the Delta to stay with my grandparents at the end of cotton rows in their shotgun house. As a child I spent many hours in the fields and woods mesmerized by small things that captured my artist’s heart and eye. Each blade of grass and lonely path that show up in my work are memories of life in the south. I cannot remember a time that I did not paint or draw. I am extremely blessed to have people tell me that my work feels authentic to them. My goal is to lead the viewer into my world in Mississippi and the South. I love modern Mississippi and the other parts of the south too, and embrace the social and cultural changes that have taken us to this place in time. My painting is heart-felt and honest. I continue to study and grow as an artist to have art with quality, integrity and soul. I want simply to record the beloved places and scenery of the south and allow the viewers to feel my work and to say silently to themselves…. “ I know this place.”