As I growed up in a house surrounded with forest rich of flowers and animals, hills, and streams... I always enjoyed spending time outside: climing trees, walking in woods, feeding animals from my parents farms, picking various type of flowers for my mom... We moved to town when I was twelwe and we had a huge painting of deers around a creek in woods in our livingroom... I sat down and with all love I had for these beautiful creatures I tryed to put on paper one of the deers... I showed my drawing to a neigbourhds who din't bealive that I made it so I knew I had a talent... Only few years later in highschool when all my art works were admired and exposed it reminded me that same thing; that I have a talent. That is where I learned to mix acrylic primary colors to obtain the desired color and enjoyed doing it... Nothing really I taught I could do with that talent as everyone said there's no future in artist career... so I tryed diffrent things as psychology and business administration... until I moved and change my whole life style, personality and perception of life... I felt in love with a man that is in love with turtles... so I started to live his way surrounded by turtles as pets, traveling just to see snappers, wood, painting and even blinding turtles... taking pictures and filming them while canoeing or walking near... Never did I used a canvas until I decided to make a print of first painting of turtle that I offered him... and put it in a matching color frame.... (see my first tutle painting) Everyone including himself admired my painting so I decided that it's what I want to do in my spare time; paint. I am starting to get familiar with diffrences in shells of terrestrial and water turtles, their shape and skin textures... but I find animals with furr much easier to capture; dogs, wolfs, foxes, wild cats, tigers, cats, rabbits, ... I am an animals and nature lover... I love to imagine my self in landscapes I create, feeling the fresh air and admiring nature beauties and wonders.