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This site is all about His life in me.  Jesus, His creation, the paintings, my family, my friends and you too,  as participants, occupy this space. The web  site is also linked to the Fountaingate Children’s Home site. Please take a look at their web site www.FountaingateHome.org.  50% of all sales from this site will go to Fountaingate. 

Here is a part of this story.  I produced my first oil painting when I was ten years old! After high school, I attended New Mexico State University on a tuition scholarship given by the NMSU Art Department. I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art from the University of California at Los Angeles. I also completed a Master’s Degree in Painting at NMSU. Loving to teach, I subsequently taught art at NMSU-Alamogordo, headed the NMSU-A Art Department, and served as the Division Head of the Professional Technologies Division.

A number of my paintings have been exhibited at the Adam Whitney Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska.  Currently my work is being shown at Creative Designs in Alamogordo, NM, Studio W in Ruidoso, NM, Oso Arts in Capitan, NM, 54/70 Gallery plus Coffee and More in Tularosa, NM. Periodically I have exhibits at the Eagle Ranch in Alamogordo, NMSU-Alamogordo,  and the Flickinger Theater in Alamogordo, NM.

Light, bright colors and familiar images such as trees and old structures continue to interest me visually. My key images are fish, birds, stones, fruit, jewels, flowers, stained glass, nostalgia, buildings, children and water. These are seen in my interpretation and representation of my central themes; “Monuments,” “Gardens,” “Time,” “The Holy Spirit,” “The Dark Glass,” “Living Waters,” “The Tree of Life,” “Biblical Scriptures,” and “Remembering.”

My work is the result of many years of searching for visual means to represent truth, in an innovative and enlightening way. Water, light and color resound through the work, like music and the sounds of creation. This site includes examples of earlier work and several new watercolors, as well as my latest acrylic paintings, which are the initiation of an entirely new, though related, body of work. Additionally, some earlier paintings have been reworked to include more light and color. My “stained glass effect”, (symbolism for personal interpretations and bias, as well as time and perspective) is also exemplified in many of the paintings.

I now work professionally in the area I love best…ART. Acrylics, watercolors, and digital prints form her primary means of visual expression. I am also illustrating a children’s book that I recently wrote.

I am married to Arlan Hauge who teaches Special Education at Alamogordo High School and Business at NMSU-A. I have one daughter, Miel Pridemore, a son-in-law, Paul Pridemore, and two beautiful grandchildren, Madison and Joshua.