I have always painted or drawn, all the time and everywhere. My earliest recollections are of paint by numbers sets, a myriad of colored pencils and crayons. My parents encouraged me and my grand-parents provided me with the subjects of many paintings and sketches with their flower garden. I started in traditional watercolor landscape at an early age moved acrylics then to oils. Later, my interest in the natural sciences influenced my passion for mixed and experimental media, and assemblage, combining traditional paper making and painting techniques with natural and man-made...more
