It took me years of painting in different methods and techniques travelling through different countries experimenting with different types of light until I have developed my own approach. - I owe much of my education to teachers like Israel Hirshberg, ken kewelly, Stuart shills, Yael Scalia Lennart Anderson,& I was inspired by painters like Thomas Eakins, Edwin Dickinson, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Nicolas Poussin, Johannes Vermeer, Hans Holbein, and so many others that I

Making a colour sketch for Sandra's portrait, I made an alla prima painting

1. Where did you first find your passion for painting? I have been drawing and painting before I learned to speak. There are photos of me from age 3 painting with an easel. I was encouraged by my mother to do so, I was always very visual oriented. 2. How has your upbringing informed your painting practice? I always drew and scribbled superheroes, dragons and imaginary figures. At first it was a very innate, instinctive, inexplicable reaction towards reality! At age 12 for som