Early beginnings

As a child I would spend hours drawing images and characters from my favorite stories as I listened to them on records I obsessively checked out from the library every week.

I also had several prized storybooks on rotation. Here I escaped into a world of magic and imagination, as characters worked out all sorts of predicaments by making deals with witches, fairies and little goblins, more often than not outsmarting them and conquering all sorts of hardships. Conjuring up images to match the words has always been the best part of what I do. To me there was something magical about the tradition of folklore and the stories and life lessons they told.