I have been an artist since I could pick up a pencil. I am mostly self-taught and have been honing my skills in private for much of my life. It was not until recently that I felt I was ready to show my work. I fought it for a long time for various reasons (i.e. an aversion to starving) and I have had a variety of careers from being a stock broker for a Fortune 500 company to being a machine operator at a factory. It all came full circle in 2013 and I am back to doing what I should have been doing all along. 46 years of art experience...maybe some would call that well-rounded, I would say it definitely makes me an antique!