To get lost in the process with no concern about how the artwork will be viewed by another.....the mode of a true artist!

I was born and grew up in Southern California after my family moved there from New York. Though I was raised West Coast, I definitely had the East Coast influence. The best of both worlds!

My Dad, Armando, was born in Calabria, Italy and was a shoemaker. My mom was a mom, but always painted. My creativity came from them both.

Mom blessed me with the talent to paint. But my curiosity about the world and people came from my father. He inspires me as to WHAT I paint. I am attracted to the beauty found in struggle, pain, longing and suffering because in all that, the soul of humanity is forged.

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