Daisy was born in Colorado, but has lived off and on in Arkansas for most of her life. When she was fourteen, she discovered oil painting and even sold her work at a local hardware store near Huntsville. When she was a child, she was fascinated by her grandmother’s china painting. She finally took a couple of courses in china painting when she was living in Alabama. Daisy has been a china painter for over twenty years and she has definitely excelled in this medium. She won a blue ribbon at a Tennessee china painter’s convention in 1986 and has held elected positions in china painting organizations in Tennessee and New Mexico. Daisy still produces lovely china painted vessels for Terra Studios.
Daisy not only paints on pottery, but also creates her own sculptures. In 1993, she started to design her own clay sculptures and sold them in a gallery in Los Cruces, New Mexico. When she moved back to Arkansas, she took a hand building class with her sister, Marilyn Rodgers, at Terra Studios. She loved the class so much that she started to sell her hand built creations along with her china painted vessels in our gallery. Daisy says she loves to make “Endangered Species From Other Worlds”, which is a specialty at Terra. She also creates wonderful clay bird houses just like her sister. Daisy says that creating artwork makes her happy and she loves to see people’s faces light up when they see her work.
