I am a late bloomer! I do not have any formal or informal art education. I discovered my artistic destiny at the age of forty while struggling with increasingly worsening depression and anxiety. Even though I obtained a degree in Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University, I did not find my artistic outlet until much later in the form of writing, drawing and illustration art. I am an American Veteran of Haitian descent and was raised by my mother in Laval, a suburb of Montreal in Canada. I spent my summers with my father in the countryside of the wine...more