My Personal information
Hello! My name is Lois. Thanks so much for stopping by my website! I hope you enjoybrowsing through my artwork. I live in southwest Georgia just minutes away from:
Americus with her stately antebellum homes, and restored 1890s Windsor Hotel.
The Civil War village of Andersonville, site of the infamous Civil War prison, Camp
Sumter, and a new POW museum.
And, Plains, the home of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
This area is rich in History and tradition and I have no lack of subject matter for my art projects, whether it be the remaining plantations catering to hunters, rustic old barns and windmills dotting the fertile landscape, the teaming wildlife in the green forests and verdant fields of cotton, peanuts, and other crops, the groves of peaches, the majestic Pecan groves, or, simply the people from all walks of life who wave, smile and greet you whether or not they know you This place is special and my husband, David, and I were privileged to raise our three children here. We home-schooled our children while I began producing my pencil drawings, and I continued with my art business as they entered High school and eventually ventured out on their own.
I was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to missionary parents. My mother was from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and my Father was Cuban. They met and married in Haiti where they built a Bible school still operating from it’s site overlooking Port-au-Prince and they were instrumental in the establishing of numerous churches all over the country.
We moved to Indiana when I was small and for a time we lived on a sheep farm where I grew to love the outdoors and animals. In 1953 we sailed on the SS Queen Mary for France, where my parents taught at a Bible school outside of Paris, and my siblings and I attended French schools for four years. While there, I often visited the Louvre and was intrigued by the student artists with easels set up in front of paintings they were copying. We returned to the States in 1957, when my parents settled in Indiana.
My older sister and I attended Ben Lippen, a boarding high school in Asheville, North Carolina. After graduating from there I spent two years at what is now Columbia International University in South Carolina, and finally graduated from Grace College, in Winona Lake, Indiana, with a major in English, and minors in Bible, Psychology, and Art. I became the executive secretary of my father’s Spanish mission, and did some traveling. I spent a summer in Lamorlaye, France, on a mission trip, and a month in the eastern jungles of Ecuador among the Colorado Indians teaching the children of missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators.
I then moved to central Ohio to work with a youth club, where I met my husband. We were married in 1974, and our three children were born there. In 1982 we moved to South Georgia, and we have been here ever since.
Here are some pictures of our family:
 This is our oldest, Heidi, 28 |
 Son Gabe, 25, and new wife, Anita |
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 Son Jeremiah with wife Erin and their boys |
 Logan 5 |
 Landon 3 |
 David Graduates from GSW |
 David and Lois at Gabe’s wedding 6-26-04 |
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