.
Sweeping
suspiros.
It
was just part of who I was. No one in my family was artistic. There
were no art books, only the Norman Rockwell covers on Life
magazine, but I drew what I saw around me. My high school art teacher
gave us a wonderful course in art history, which made me aware of
different artists and each one’s particular style. It was a very exciting
discovery, and I still hold on to much of that visual experience to this day.
When I was about 22 I went to an outstanding exhibit of impressionists at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which swept me away.
Before becoming an artist, I did many things. I worked in the fashion
industry which was also very creative. I earned an associate in arts
degree and was working in Connecticut as an executive trainee,
became the assistant fashion coordinator at what was then G. Fox &
Company, then in Washington DC as an assistant buyer at the Hecht
Company.
In Mexico I devoured art books and museums. Eventually I was hired by
a local advertising agency as assistant art director. I worked on layouts
and storyboards for Bacardi Rum and other clients, and was later