My Dad had a printing business when I was
young, and I loved to go down to the printing plant and watch as the big
presses created shiny pages of color. Actually, the end product was usually
annual reports or other business publications, but I was fascinated by the
colors that were used, layer on layer, on the beautiful paper. I was already in love with color and
paper, when a second grade classmate told me, “You draw good trees!”; the
decision was made in that moment...I was going to be an artist.