. I Was born in Montreuil/Sous/Bois, a suburb of Paris France in 1938 just before WWII. In 1945 on my 7th birthday I decided that when I grow up I would go to America. I did in 1960 and lived in New York with my husband Charlie Raker who encouraged me always to do what I liked. All my life I would be drawing or painting, but since I had no formal art education, my style was 'Naive'. I would tell stories on canvas. We moved permanently to Florida in 1964. Over the next few years I took up interior design and had an antique...more
