I was born & raised in Picture Butte, Alberta, Canada. My interest in art started at a very early age. I enjoyed drawing mostly and as I grew older I started painting with water colors and oils. I took a three year art correspondence course in high school and several other painting courses in later years. I married soon after high school and started a family and found I had no time to work with my art and drifted away from it. I live on a farm just east of Turin, Alberta, Canada where we have been every since we got married thirty four years...more