Lucy
grew up in the Deep South, that’s South Texas. She didn’t have much
to do in a very small and rural town called Laredo, so she and her
siblings would let their imaginations run wild. She is the youngest
of seven; this is where she gets her artist’s nickname, “Seventh
M&M.” She considers herself the “wild one” of the family, more like
a shy Mowgli from The Jungle Book, because she spent a lot of time
outdoors. Her family didn’t have a
 fence, so their backyard was the
vast landscape of endless woods where they spent playing hide and
seek and exploring every acre of it all the way to the river. Lucy
and her siblings would go swimming in the Rio Grande River in the
hot summers. In 1985 she moved to Central Texas where she fell in
love with Austin. She has very fond memories of growing up in Texas
with its beautiful landscapes and sunsets.
Lucy first started loving art
when she would see her older siblings drawing and painting. Her
brother was great at
sketching and watercolors. Her inspiration for
art came
 from her Junior High art teacher,
Marilyn S. De King. Lucy was the
third and last member of her family to take her class. That’s when
she discovered Leonardo da Vinci and fell in love with everything he
had ever created. After junior high, she got interested in the
sciences and stopped
 drawing. She later took up drawing after she
had her children, Nadine & Karim. They brought out the creative
side of her and she began taking art classes at Los Angeles City
College. Taking her art education seriously she graduated with
an Associate of Arts Degree in Fine Art from College of the Canyons,
Valencia, CA in August 2005. She still feels
that she has much to learn, but is very grateful to
 have met so many
talented instructors, art students and artists in the process.
She has
experimented with different art media like sculpture, pencil,
charcoal, acrylics, pastels, and photography to name a few. Her
favorite scenes are landscapes and sunsets. Lucy still spends much
of her time outdoors chasing after sunsets. She believes that
“beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
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