Artist Statement

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"I've considered myself an artist since my earliest memories.  I love all types of art.  My mother was an oil painter so I was always around art books, pastels, and paints while growing up.  My mother's father was a sculptor.  During my elementary and high school years the city of San Diego sponsored contests for free summer art lessons. Each school in the city would choose one student's art work to represent them in the contest.  I was fortunate that my art work won three times. Those free art lessons at a young age gave me the foundation for my adult art skills and provided me with my first opportunity to have my work exhibited in a contemporary Museum.  Later, when I took college level art courses, I was surprised to realize that some of the same concepts that I had learned in those early summer lessons, such as perspective, shading, and contour, were same ones being presented at a college level.  I had been given a fantastic head-start as a child to learn about art and how to express my talent with various kinds of materials, as well as how to work with other students in an art studio setting."

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