About The Artist I have loved art all my life, but my training as an artist has come in bits and pieces. As a child I was always the artist in the classroom; as an adolescent I took what classes were available to me, and I was the art editor of my high school’s yearbook. In college I experimented in courses both in studio art and in art history. More recently, I have studied drawing, illustration, collage, watercolor, weaving, and oil painting at various venues in the Boston area. Yet, ultimately, I believe that my most valuable art education has come from two time honored methods: the countless hours that I have spent learning on my own, and my lessons and critiques with master painter Marian Dioguardi.