ArtistBio

Candace grew up in California and has studied art extensively
throughout her life. As a young girl, she spent her summers in the
high desert with grandmother, also an accomplished painter and
where she was encouraged to persue and explore her creativity
through art. She attended California State University in Fullerton
and then later graduated, cum laude, with a B.F.A. in painting,
drawing and kinesiology from Texas Woman's University in
Denton, Texas. She has studied with nationally recognized
watercolorist, Don Andrews, pastelist, Susan Ogilvie, master
printer, Dan Weldon and Texas State Artist, Dalhart Windberg.

Candace has been actively involved in the arts community since
the early seventies, working with the City of Anaheim, Fontana
and Upland, California to develop citywide public art programs for
children. After moving to Texas she helped implement a similar
youth curriculum for the City of Farmers Branch. In 1989, she
started with fellow artist, Michael Bane, Fort Worth Artists &
Company, which was one of Fort Worth's first successfully owned
and operated artists' co-operative gallery and studios,
housing over 20 artists.

Candace is widely known for her Old Masters style of portraits,
landscapes and still life oil paintings, as well as her finely
rendered watercolors of cityscapes, equine and animals portraits
and her delicate figurative drawings. She has painted many
murals for boutiques, salons, gift shops, attorney offices and
private residences. She also specializes in faux marble, wood and
metal finishes and has taught the various disciplines of painting,
drawing and printmaking since the mid-seventies.

She has been represented by the Carol Henderson/Artenergies
Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas since 1989 and The Gallery on
Dickson Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas since 1996. Candace has
presented many lectures and demonstrations of her work to
public schools, art associations, civic groups and private clubs
and organizations throughout North Texas and California.
Candace was also selected to serve as a judge for the 2006, 2007
and 2008 Annual Congressional Art Competition, sponsored by
Kay Granger, a member of the Congress of the United States.
Her work hangs in many private and corporate collections
throughout the United States, England and France.