I was a very artistic child, to which I credit my mother, Sherril Welch. She is a western artist, whom I grew up admiring. I would watch her paint with oils, nights on end. It was a combination of my observance and her guidance that helped me become the artist I am today.

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I often sketched cattle and horses when I was young, animals I was most passionate about, having been raised on a cattle ranch in Hondo, Texas. Horses were my favorite, so I would most often sketch them. 

 

I began identifying myself as an artist when I was 13 years old, when I completed a realistic pencil drawing of a roping horse. I received so many compliments on that piece, which helped fuel my passion.

 

I tired of grayscale in high school and picked up watercolor pencils, which I used through college. During my sophomore year at Texas A&M University, one of my professors fell in love with a watercolor pencil drawing I had of two kids looking at a field of colts. She, along with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, commissioned my mother and I to paint a similar scene in Scoates Hall, on A&M's main campus. The 42-square-foot mural was completed in 11 days. I definitely knew how to paint with acrylics at that point and could not have dreamt of a better opportunity to learn.

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I began acrylic painting on canvas after I married my husband in 2009, then picked up oils, my favorite art medium. In addition to painting commissions, I ventured into illustrating children's books (Hayfield series and Sarah the Showman series) for Author Rachel Williams Cutrer. 

 

Most of my work is commissioned. Every art piece, whether for my personal collection, or through a commission, is a new challenge. I try to become more realistic with each medium and to continually bring smiles to collectors of my work.