Although I have drawn all my life, my artistic sense leapt into high gear while living in Suriname, South America in the early 1980’s. The saturated colors of tropical flowers, birds, insects and a dense rainforest awed me.
Wide-eyed Balinese dancers in glittering dress inspired paintings that were featured at Arsenault Gallery, Naples, Florida, in 1993. The Indonesian Embassy in Washington send the I Gusti Agnung Ngurah Supartha dance troupe to open the show.