I am an acrylic artist from the Chicago suburbs. I began to "seriously" paint in 2002. I always felt strong in academic art classes. My 99 year old grandma is an oil painter. I learned from her. I have been a landscape architect in the recent past. Now I paint and sketch, I do art shows and have sold out of a local Gallery. Painting and sketching make me feel whole and centered. I want to share my art with the world because we all need to see "out of the box artwork" and let it speak to you.