Both her children were creative in various ways; therefore, she helped them develop their skills.  After they were grown, she found more time for herself.  Faye's priorities has always been God, family, church and job. Well after retirement, the death of both parents and some medical problems, Faye felt that her world of enjoying God’s wonderful creations had come to a halt because she could not leave home.  (Of course, she still had her memories, photography and a loving family.) Little did Faye know that there was a new God given talent awaiting to be discovered. Today, her creativity reaches a higher degree everyday as she continues to discover the love of painting.

Memory of places visited, photography and what Faye sees every day, all provide subjects for composition and painting.  Faye utilizes all her abilities and strive for each painting to become a great masterpiece.  She continues to attend art workshops, to read, and learn from the vast other sources available for artists today.

Faye is mostly self taught with her oil and acrylic work.  Years ago, Faye took art appreciation at Lee College, Cleveland, Tennessee.  Several years ago, She enrolled in art classes at Bevel State Community College, Sumiton, Alabama (Jean Tune, Art Instructor).   She paints with many friends often while camping outdoors in state and national parks. One of Faye's greatest joys while camping is to let a child from a nearby campsite paint their first painting (Of course, with mom's approval)

At her local church, she taught others the love of painting, especially people with medical disabilities and senior citizens.  She says one of her greatest joys was to teach and to assist a 90 year old woman to paint her first painting and develop a wonderful friendship with her.  Her last three years have been devoted to her original paintings  

Faye's painting "A Church to Come Home To" won a trip to The Great Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg, Tennessee in a Church of God Senior Adult competition. The paintings "Downtown Birmingham with the Vulcan” and the “Bethlehem Methodist Church" have been published in the “Birmingham/Hoover Sketchbook”. The "Downtown Birmingham with the Vulcan" was published on the outside cover of that book and was included on several pages of the book.