All my life I have been moved by and drawn to color,k form and texture and have struggled to find ways in which I could connect with those strong emotions aroused in me when I observed vivid color, bold form or strong texture.  I mastered first one craft and then another, never recognizing that I was striving to find the right way for me to express the passion within me.  Then I put a paintbrush loaded with cerulean blue oil paint on a canvas and I knew that I had arrived, arrived  at that place where I could realize my world view in a tangible and permanent way.   I also perceived that I had just begun the long process of learning the techniques to enable me to do just that.