"My Father At Work In His Paisley Tie" Painting

Born & currently residing in America, I now live in a luscious, tropical environment, which is a direct opposite of where I grew up: snowy & wintry, although quite Magical, Edinburgh, Scotland. I miss the purple heather! I hope to visit the UK & London again but My last visit to London, England, was very sad,just before the Sunami hit. I spent a sad reflective 5 minutes in silence at Heathrow, along with everyone in the airport, in honor of that tragedy. So I do hope to return to England at a better time. I am absolutely committed to creating art in exciting different ways using traditional techniques. My major interest is drawing and painting with a little photography thrown in. I may say that lightly but actually I majored in photography on Scholarship to Barry College, but I was attracted to having more control and I worked hard to develop my technique in drawing & painting until it pleased me. My medium is oil on canvas or wood, I create hand painted photographs and lately work in oils & pastels with Swarovski Crystals, which I then video. I like to draw because it is simple and shows the skeleton of the work I do. I'm working now on a new body of work comprising of using Swarovski Crystals in my paintings & drawings to bring in the light to dark places. I show here on my oil painting "Meltdown" with Swarovski Crystals. I am having a good time recently,creating a Magical Cookbook, as I do have a secret love affair with magic, fairies, elves and fantasy.