CURRENT MISSION painting, painting, and more painting! I live on the island of HUAHINE, which is pretty isolated, and vastly beautiful, perfect for my painting mission. ABOUT ME Always loved to travel. Lived in India when I was young, teenage years I traveled a lot on bicycle through Europe. Moved to France, then Morocco in my early 20s. Ended up in French Polynesia in the late 1970s, meant to come back immediately forever--but it took me 20yrs. In the interim I was maintaining my art career, raising children and transforming a neighbourhood in Providence RI. I managed to flee fairly frequently to the south of France or the Caribbean for my dose of francophonie and island life! I am blessed with 2 beautiful children--a daughter who paints as well--she graduated from SFAI--and is a marvelous tattoo artist living in SF specializing in Polynesian motifs, and a son who is restoring Victorian houses in Providence RI! I currently live ON THE ISLAND OF HUAHINE with a charming tahitian "Tane"(man) on his family land in Maeva, we built a "locale style" house and a gallery for my paintings, and he rents a little bungalow in our back garden. PHILOSOPHY Life is worth living, and it is what you make of it, so I strive to open my mind and wrestle with my personal demons and step into the light at the center of my being for the strength and serenity that sometimes alludes me in the daily grind. Painting is my passion, and they say Painting is a Jealous Mistress...