Art = Life as far as I'm concerned. I've been creating and making things since I was a very little girl. From mural projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, to gallery shows (including the M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park), to polymer clay and now jewelry making, I'm never comfortable unless I have some project or another cooking away on my art shelf.



I find jewelry making to be a rather expensive pastime, but also the most immediately rewarding for me. I've sold more jewelry in the past few months I've been making it than all the paintings I sold throughout the 1990's when I was at my peak with that medium.



I'm a divorced single mother of two small children, and am a long-term HIV survivor, having been diagnosed in 1992. My children are both HIV negative. The silver lining there is that I am now on disability so the limited energy I have left over after taking care of my kids and my two lovely cats can be put into art, instead of working an outside job to make ends meet.



I have a wicked sense of humor, and eclectic taste that can appear in my jewelry and polymer clay art. My tastes run to Bollywood filmis, bhangra music, science fiction and zombie horror. Films from India, Japan, China, Thailand and Korea are much preferable to me than the garbage being churned out by American film houses these days.



I consider myself to be a bit odd :P. I'm an atheist that used to make rosaries, and I don't really wear jewelry. I just like to make it. I also find that if a project doesn't give me a hard time, I don't have as much fun making it.



I have experience in polymer clay, acrylic paint (including making building murals), digital art, mixed media with found objects, collage, drawing, tattoo design, slumped glass and a plethora of kid crafts including macaroni paintings and play-doh kitties. I've owned/painted several art cars and believe that everything looks better with art on it.