My early years were spent on the Tablerock Mountain Appaloosa Horse Ranch near Cransfills Gap, Texas. My parents raised and bred “spotted horses” and also showed them all over the western United States in events like cutting, reining, barrel racing and western pleasure.

This is where I began my “art career”, drawing what I saw and knew. But sometime in my mid teens, I put away my pencils and never picked them up again for fifty years.