About Bruce

Bruce has lived in many places across the nation though she was born and raised in South Carolina. While living in the Washington, DC area, she attended Maryland School of Art and Design. Her husband, being military, was transferred so many times that it was impossible to complete studies at one place. The rest of Bruce’s training came from the many professional workshops that she attended along with what she calls the street of hard knocks. The explanation for the street of hard knocks being the doing, the searching, re-doing the failures, and not being afraid to reach beyond. Some of her reaches beyond included a three year run of teaching art on a program for ETV and writing a newspaper column about art. All of the lessons from these endeavors have led her to the place that she is at this point: Painter, Teacher, Muralist, Illustrator of books and magazines, and an artist that is selected for exhibits locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Artist’s statement:

I paint for the process – the pure enjoyment of painting. I can not imagine not painting. Likewise, I couldn’t have imagined the endeavors that my art lead me towards – teaching art for three years on ETV, being the only person locked inside a super Wal-mart store, on a scissor lift (while painting murals near the ceiling), and owning a small manufacturing business, winning the Governor’s Award for Small Business Employer of the year – 1984. Somewhere along the line, art moved into my life.