My background is in interior design and am influenced by over the top designers like Iris Apfel, Tony Duquette and Gerald DeCock. Whether it's interior design, painting, jewelry design, photography or abstract art, restraint is not in my vocabulary. I have a shop on etsy where I transform discarded plastic water, soda and juice bottles that are cut, heat hardened, molded and hand painted into Chihuly inspired art flowers. Many of these flowers are photographed for Etsy and afterward i'll continue to edit the photo until it rarely resembles the original photograph and is an abstract...more
