After graduating from the Art Institute, I animated children’s educational CD’s for a company called Knowledge Engineering, in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. What joy to make dinosaurs hatch and bean seeds grow! We got to use Macromedia Director when it had just come out – a huge improvement to the pixel-by-pixel animation software we had been using.

Next, at Appletree Technologies, a software training center, I took classes in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, while designing business presentations and classroom visuals in their Multimedia Division.

From there I went to DayStar Digital, producer of accelerator boards for programs like Photoshop. My Creative Director, Tim, taught us a lot and encouraged wonderful teamwork. Using Macromedia Director, we built an interface for their product line, which won a New Media Invision Bronze award. While there, I also enjoyed illustrating products, and learning to enhance product photos from their in-house studio which used Hasselblad cameras – very cool.

As a freelance artist, I have been blessed to work for a variety of clients and projects, including animating mutating cells for the CDC, designing internal presentations in the basement of the Coca-Cola Corp., illustrating scenes for a video game featuring a cyborg armadillo (don’t ask!), and morphing JELL-O molds into jiggling creatures for a screensaver distributed by the Cartoon Network. I’ve also created logos, ads, and book illustrations.

I currently live in Virginia where I work from a studio in the top of my house. My husband and I work together on our “junior” farm, and I enjoy painting portraits and photographing the garden. Throughout the day I am mindful to thank God, because He made all things, including us. Favorite artists are Tasha Tudor and Georgia O’Keefe.