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Check out IndyArts.org to view work by other artists in the Indianapolis Area. You can also find out about the monthly First Fridays which is art gallery walks and open studios in the Massachusetts Avenue and Fountain Square areas.

On the First Friday gallery walk, I frequent Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage. I am friends with Wug and metal sculptor, Nancy Lee, who also has her studio there.

Be sure to look at the Harrison Center for the Arts and at Artist Anonymous which meets monthly at HCA. If you are a local artist, I recommend coming and sharing in the discussion.

I am a member of the Professional Fine Art Network which is a networking index for fine artists and consultants working in the hospitality, healthcare, corporate and public art sectors.

You can browse over my Suggested Reading for Artists at Amazon.

This site was designed by my husband, Stephen M. James. He also has a poetry site of hundreds of original poems called the poetry knook.

I have always been drawn to natural, organic objects and choose to portray them with oil on textured surfaces. Often, I present my subject in "dynamic still life" with a shift of time through movement or growth-decay. I am originally from the rust-belt city of Rockford, Illinois. I left the manufacturing town to study fine art at Asbury College and find inspiration among the rolling hills and forests of rural Kentucky. Although consistently representational, I strive to create subtlety layered visual and philosophical metaphors. In 2005, I returned to the country's heartland where I am active in the local art community of Indianapolis, Indiana. Next to oil painting, my greatest passion is helping others appreciate art by teaching private classes.