Flowers For My Favorite Teacher Merchandise My mother was a fashion

My mother was a fashion designer and my earliest artistic inspirations were her design drawings

and dozens of gallery shows

and is the reason I became a self taught artist

This series features mysterious and beautiful creatures that shape-shift by shedding their animal skin into the form of human women

A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion

Flowers For My Favorite Teacher Merchandise My mother was a fashionDetails About Shipping Oil on Paper 2015 12 x 16 in. (40 x 30 cm.) Framed to 18 x 14 in. (43 x 33 cm.) "I was born in year 1980 in Latvia, a small country in the North East of Europe, which was at that time under soviet occupation. My inspirations have been as diverse as: folklore fairytales, children book illustrations, imaginative soviet animation films and supernaturally real classical painting; the colorful forbidden rare secret imagery of the