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Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 6:22 p.m.

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot

This quote has been my experience with art. Though I drew incessantly as a child (reams and reams of paper!) I actually resisted the idea of being an "artist" most of my life. Maybe it goes back to the idea of feeling out of the loop - that somehow I wasn't a "real" artist? Or perhaps it had to do with cultural stereotypes of artists necessarily being eccentric and anti-social? Regardless, returning to visual art has been a joyful homecoming.

I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and spent ten precious years in Austin. I have also lived in New Orleans and Shreveport, LA, Asheville, NC, rural Florida and Tennessee, as well as Simi Valley, a suburb outside of Los Angeles, CA. From adolescents until quite recently acting was my primary creative focus. My family is very creative (our black sheep would be someone with a "normal" job!) My mom is a painter - my inspiration and mentor. I'm blessed to have grown up around her work! And to know first hand the challenges of art as a profession.

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