Art was not always in the grand plan for my life, but now I cannot imagine a single day without it.
While in high school, I decided I wanted to be a teacher of high school English, and I pursued those courses in college. When marriage and a family interrupted that plan, I worked as a florist for 34 years. All of that time, from youth to maturity, I drew and painted as a hobby. I daydreamed about how nice it would be to make art full time. I took art classes and painting workshops at every opportunity, hoping that if and when the chance came when I could become a real artist, I would be ready.
When my daughter convinced a gallery owner he should look at my work, and he sold it, I began to believe there might be a place for art in my life plan after all. I retired from the floral business in 2008 and work in my studio every day. I still take classes and workshops and teach occasionally, but mostly I paint. I paint all those paintings I have been saving up in my head and heart, and am nurturing until every thing, art, time, experience, aptitude, talent, life, at last has come together. It is my hope that now my art will be richer, fuller, flowing with colors, textures and expressiveness that was not possible until just now. I am blessed to have this time in my life and I intend to make the most of it.
Studied painting under Billy Kirk.
Participated in workshops taught by Jason Bouldin, Ray Roberts, David Leffel, Roger Dale Brown, Kim English and Sammie Britt, who studied under Henry Herische.
Boyd is a member of Oil Painters of America, Landscape Artists International, and is a founding member of the Mississippi Painter's Society.
Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi Northwest Community College, Senatobia, Mississippi University of Mississippi, Continuing Education, Tupelo, Mississippi Senatobia High School, Senatobia, Mississippi Studied with Billy Kirk -- three years
2009
Fine Art class, Northeast Mississippi Community College, Booneville, MS
2008
Plein Air painting workshop, Roger Dale Brown, Instructor
Still Life workshop, Pat Walker Fields, Instructor
Still Life and Portrait workshop, David Leffel, Instructor
Figure in Plein Air workshop, Kim English, Instructor
2006: Plein Air Workshop, Ray Roberts, Instructor Attended Rendezvous of Western Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma Attended Prix de West, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Attended Monet Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
