Florida Artist:

With two years of college completed, I returned home and began work in the showroom of a leading interior design firm called David & Dash. Mr. Dash took a fancy to me and insisted I learn the trade from the ground on up, so he transferred me to the warehouse, where I was introduced to colors with strange names like rust, fuchsia, alabaster & ebony. Here I began to understand how colors worked with one another and I began to co-ordinate color combinations.

Shortly thereafterI resumed my studies at the U of Miami, from which I graduated with a BBA degree in Finance and Marketing.

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I took care of my mother in the morning after she suffered a severe stroke in 1991,so my dad could make his daily rounds treating disease and tending to the broken bones and such at St Francis Hospital, but soon found I needed to be with my mom full time, as another and another stroke ravaged her frail body.

I eventually moved back in with my parents cooking, cleaning and caring for my mom and I soon found myself managing the entire household, grocery shopping, answering calls for my dad, doing his medical practice's billing, and taking on the household responsibilities that my mom once did. I became very close with my folks and this was a great time in my life.

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In my free time I began to write music and formed a band whom with I eventually recorded a CD "$10 Guitar"

Then...
I lost my mother, and four months afterward, My Dad Died Also!

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I moved to Key West and bought a home where I began to paint with watercolors. The art work soon consumed all of my time and this was good, because I was alone and very sad.

My watercolor art became my best friend, kept me company, and brought me great joy.

Jump to 2007
I still paint watercolors and will continue to paint as long as God has that planned for me. In the future, I would like to teach watercolors, as a mentor once told me "if you ever want to really learn about something, teach IT"