I was born in West Virginia, grew up in Chicago, learned a lot in the suburbs, and am blooming in Tennessee. A trail of paint was left behind through all. While I spent most of my time as a wage-slave, I painted as much as I could and when I couldn’t, I painted in my mind. And of the actual paintings created, I managed to sell most of them to my employers and co-workers for their homes and offices. Oil paint was my first love until I had children. After one of them got old enough to reach the wet paint on an easel, I switch to acrylics that would dry...more