R.S. Connett BIO

I currently live in Los Angeles, California USA. I was born in San Francisco, Ca. In the year 1951. I come from a middle class background with no artistic family influence. There are no artists, musicians or creative types of any kind in my family. One exception, My younger sister, like myself, is an artist. My father was an insurance broker. My mother, a housewife with no hobbies. In spite of being brought up in a family where there was never a single picture on the wall for decoration, I was always drawing.

I was encouraged to draw and recognized as having some ability to do so when I was very young, perhaps 5 or 6 years old. Although my family did not appreciate art, they did encourage my ability and helped me by gifting me pens and papers with which to draw.

I feel that, concerning my art, there have been 3 stages of importance in my life. First, as a child, being recognized to have some talent in drawing, I was encouraged and so became interested in making art. This made art an important thing throughout my childhood, young adult and adult life.

The second important stage occurred with an event in 1978. At that time I was working in my fathers insurance business and was terribly unhappy. I had a depressive meltdown because I was drinking too much and felt as though my life was pointless. I decided the answer was to make art again. I had not made much art from my teenaged years to that point, when I was 27. It was then, to preserve my sanity, that I began making art as a serious hobby. From that time forward I worked on my art in all my spare time. Of course, I was young, so "spare time" came after social interactions. As time went on, and social interaction became boring to me, the time I devoted to my artistic hobby grew.


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(I am so sorry that I do not know where on the internet I got this wonderful comprehensive autobiography of this very talented artist but please know that I did not write it nor did I edit it in anyway!)