...For as far back as I can remember, I have always loved art. As a child I would wonder about the particular painting I was looking at........what was the artist thinking......was this a familiar scene... what was the story behind it......I was curious about brush strokes and color selection. I was a student of the arts before I was even consciously aware of it. When I became married and had three children, during the process of nurturing their gifts and discovering their potential, I had to seriously look at my own desire to create works of art. So I started small with...more