"The Virgin of Guadalupe" Painting

Lark Calderon-Gomez was born and raised in California where she fell in love with oil painting when she was seven. Her mother, a gifted artist, started teaching her at that time. She was twenty years old when she landed her first professional work as an illustrator for a book on magic illusions published by Pearson/Simmel Press. She went on to work in animation for award-winning MetroLight Studios in LA. She worked under award-winning digital effects artist, Mark A. Lassoff. They worked in the 2D division called, MetroCel, where Lark painted cels on Ren & Stimpy and Beavis & Butthead, respectively. In 1994 Lark and her husband decided to move back to Northern California for a peaceful life in the mountains. In Lake Tahoe, she studied for four years with talented painter, Phyllis Shafer. Lark and her husband now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Being kind of a news junkie, current events come to her as subject matter. Often the stories are heartbreaking, she is driven to paint them, to interpret and therapeutically deal with them. She feels this will continue through out her life.