This is me at 5 years old.  I'm a bit older now, yet some things never change.  Ever since I can remember I loved to draw and paint.  My earliest wall mural was at 3 years old, when my two older brothers and I had the measles.  Bored and quarantined at home, I stood on the top of their bunk bed and as they cheered me on I drew a boy wearing a prison suit, stripes and all, measles all over his huge face.  We laughed and felt a lot better.  I didn't even get in trouble.  Thanks, Mom & Dad.  Since then my creative path has allowed me many opportunities.

After studying illustration in New York, I painted giftware and worked in an advertising department. Then, for fifteen years, I worked in the home furnishings industry as the creative partner in an Arizona based manufacturing company. You may know their retail store, the Iron Factory.

I designed chandeliers and furniture, created showrooms & retail displays and traveled to many lighting and home furnishing markets.  In 1997, I traveled to Italy as part of an art & architecture tour.  Such beauty, such history, such ART!  That was it!  What never changed was my desire to draw and paint!  I decided to follow my heart.

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