Courtney received her degree in Art and Education in 1999. She is a National Board-Certified Art Teacher and has taught art at the high school level in North Carolina since 2007. Her art is exhibited regularly through the Henderson County Arts Council and Advocates for the Arts Organization.

Her art has evolved and reinvented itself year after year as her interests in various media have ebbed and flowed. Despite the constant change in approach and media, Courtney vacillates between the abstract and the human figure/portraiture as her favorite subject matter.