I began my career as a watercolorist, first a member of the Kansas Watercolor Society (1977-1981). Then moving to Asheville in 1981 becoming a member of the North Carolina Watercolor Society. Early watercolor work  includes North Carolina genre paintings, still-life and landscape. I  transitioned to other mediums including pastel and large acrylic paintings for shows such as the Christmas Invitational at the Asheville Art Museum. I also created an installation which was first shown in Grace Center Gallery, Fletcher and was purchased later by Forest Hills Church in Charlotte.

Installation – Be Lifted Up O Everlasting Doors

This installation is a metaphor for the sacrifice and exultation of the God/Man, Jesus who is the King of Glory. He is  the door or entry to heaven and eternity. His sacrifice is foretold when the captive Israelites were instructed to kill a lamb and put its blood on the door jams of their Egyptian homes so the angel of death would pass over their home.
Each of the door jams in the installation is lifted higher as one approaches the end panels. So too the King of Glory was “lifted up” on a cross.
Walking through six blood-covered doors toward heavenly glory reminds us how we can approach God who dwells in inaccessible light. Jesus the Lamb of God, made it possible for us, by his blood.  

Be Lifted Up O Ancient Doors was first shown at Grace Center in 1998. It was shown again at Genema Gallery in Atlanta. The end painting now hangs at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, N.C.