While she isn’t the main character in The Witch of Painted Sorrows, she is at its heart. A sixteenth century courtesan, the muse of a great artist who becomes a great artist herself. While there was no suggestion she dabbled in the occult, her resilience and determination inspired me to create a woman named, La Lune. A woman artist who succeeded despite enduring so much. When I was in Paris, I visited an exhibition of a late sixteen century female painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Of every subject I am always drawn first to art and artists. I am more at home looking at paintings and sculpture than doing anything, including reading. When I visit a city the first place I go to is the musuem. And I’ve never stopped studying or wanting to be painter. It was at the Metropolian Museum of Art in New York City. I was six when I took my first art class.
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