| Creating life on paper and capturing a moment of life with my camera, excites and at the same time, satisfies my soul! I have always felt that pets, nature and wildlife, are some of my closest friends. There is a kinship, a connection, with our natural world that I feel to be very strong in my heart. And when viewing paintings of a pet, a loved one or a wildlife scene, I believe it can bring a deep solace or comfort to our being. As a child, when I drew a picture of a bird or dog, I felt in my mind, that I captured that insignificant little life forever on my paper. And as time passed, so did my youth, and I became even more aware of capturing the heart and soul of a life on paper or canvas that would ‘live’ forever. Also, with each new painting of wildlife I begin, it fills me with so much emotion , watching it transform into a scene from the ‘unseen’ that takes place in the wild everyday that we don’t often see. That gives me great satisfaction to bring the life of the wild to the viewer and also gives me peace in my soul.
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