When did you first discover your talent for drawing?
I suppose that I have always been creative. I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember, but when I was younger, I never really took It seriously. I come from a family where the arts are highly encouraged. When I was a child I remember my father would sit me and my sister and brother down at the kitchen table, each with our own art supplies and canvases and encourage us to create something.
However, art is not my only love. I am a studied Bibliophile. Actually, it was the desire to study literature that brought me over to Europe from the United States in the first place. I spent eight years in Germany working on my Masters Degree in German and English Literature and then moved to London with my husband. When I found out I was pregnant, I started drawing little pieces of art to hang in my son's nursery. I remembered a course I had taken in the University I attended in Munich about the significance of Fairy Tales and their impact on child development and it gave me the idea to start painting my own version of some of my favourite stories. Our friends and family started commenting about how they loved the art and encouraging me to do something with it.