My Left Brain Life
My years as a single mother raising a fabulous son found me making a
career in banking.
From 1974 to 1979, I worked my way from teller/clerk up to Assistant
Branch Manager at Citizens Savings Association in Moberly, MO (later
to be swallowed up by Community Federal to be swallowed up by
Boatman’s Bank to be swallowed up by NationsBank to be swallowed up
by Bank of America).
My move to St. Louis, MO in 1979 kept my banking career going with
United Postal Savings Association (later......Mercantile Bank,
later......FirStar, later…..US Bancorp.). During my tenure at UPSA,
which lasted until 1991, I advanced from Processing Supervisor in
the lending department to Vice President of Mortgage Operations
where we were the largest residential mortgage lender in the
metropolitan area.
My departure was luckily timed. I was able after 17 years to make
some important decisions as to where I wanted to go next, which was
most definitely following my long postponed desire to pursue art.
My Right Brain Life
Since 1992 I have been studying and working at finding my niche. I
have studied at Washington University; worked in a fine art glass
gallery, taken a landscape workshop with Kim English in Aspen, CO;
and studied privately with Robert Anthony Ketchens. (I hope to
always be a student in some capacity.)
I have also owned and operated a business designing and creating
beaded/semi-precious stone jewelry which I exhibited both locally
and nationally in juried shows.
I now focus solely on oil painting (and my granddaughters) and am
finding great satisfaction.
contact me at 314/520/1921
or
carladawson@earthlink.net
