Creativity and art have been a vital part of my life from the beginning. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest, where I cannot say there was any particular emphasis on 'fine art' but my own path as an artist started early. I was confined to a body cast for a time as a toddler and this, my mother theorized, is when it all began. She would set me up with paper and crayons and I would spend hours drawing. I sure wish I could see some of those early works now! As I've learned more about how the brain develops, I've realized that the time I was forced to spend as an...more