Forney, Texas · Murals · Portraits · Illustration
Hand-painted walls, portraits on wood and canvas, and illustration for the page — by an art teacher who spent a decade learning what actually lands with a seven-year-old, and the ten years since making it for real.
Her own book
In an orchard full of sweet fruit, one tree grows only lemons, and nobody wants them, until the Father of the orchard sits beneath it and tells it how loved it is. Her first book as both author and illustrator.
Grouped by where it lives — on a child’s wall, in a school hallway, on a board, on canvas, on the page.
Walls children wake up to. Each one starts with a conversation about the child and ends with a room that feels like it was always meant to look this way.
Hallways, doors, and gathering rooms — big enough that the whole building sees them, painted so they still hold up close.
Portraits painted straight onto reclaimed boards, so the grain becomes part of the face.
Families, couples, grandparents, and one Jimi Hendrix. Oil, watercolor, and graphite, from photographs old and new.
The ones who sit still for exactly nobody.
A long-running series on movement — dancers on stripes, on barn wood, on splatter — with the charcoal studies underneath it.
Watercolor for the page, and three published books she illustrated.
Published
A bedtime picture book for the promise every parent makes — “always, forever” — with a lullaby download and a page to write your child a letter.
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A book of poetry written as a dance — a conversation about being fully alive and free. The dancer paintings on this page grew up alongside it.
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A young couple’s five-year journey through high-risk pregnancies and two very premature babies — a story of strength, courage, and faith.
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Two walls, start to finish.
Everything here is hand-drawn and made for children and the people who love them. I taught elementary art for ten years, which means I have drawn for, with, and in front of thousands of kids — and I know the difference between art that adults think is cute and art a child actually reaches for.
Since leaving the classroom I’ve worked as a freelance artist: murals for nurseries, schools, churches and homes, portraits from photographs old and new, theater sets built from a director’s brief, and three published books. Every one of those jobs started with someone else’s vision and ended on someone else’s date.
My native tools are pencil, brush, and a very large wall. I’m bringing that hand into Adobe Illustrator now — the eye is twenty years old; the software is catching up fast.
— Lindsey
What I bring
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, 2006 to 2016, kindergarten through fifth grade. I never taught art projects for their own sake. Each year had one big idea — honor, culture, self-respect — and every lesson, wall, and build pointed back at it.
For a year-long study of cultures around the world, I built an airplane interior in the room. Students boarded to travel. The drawing was the door into the lesson, not the decoration on it.
I pursued and won grant funding for a school-wide garden — fruit, vegetable, and floral beds, planted by every grade level. When I left, the school named the garden after me.
I transformed the campus with murals, founded after-school programs in art and dance, and widened what children there could reach: fine arts, dance, theater.
“Creative efficiency — problem-solving for the best result with the materials, budget, and time actually available.”The line I’d put on my own flashcard.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Art Education
University of North Texas
Associate of Fine Arts
Trinity Valley Community College
Texas Educator Certification, Art
Eligible for reactivation
Based in Forney, Texas. Commissions, murals, and illustration — and fully set up to work remotely on Central time.