I started drawing people when I was 8 years old while living in Spain. At the time there was not much else to do as an only child, deaf in one ear, living in a foreign country. By the time I was 9, must have been to the Prado Museum at least 100 times . The paintings, art and life I witnessed while young influenced me and my art substantially. Around 1987, I started painting with acrylics. I painted life- sized portraits of my friends, determined to show strangers what they were really like, using only 2 complementary colors per canvas. In 1989, I switched to oils, went back to Spain for an independent study, and went to art school. I am living in the shadows of deceased masters from my quiet world, trying to get it right and find my own self worth, in places that are only part Home. Daily, I cross my fingers for Mother nature and delight in capturing the character of individuals.