i guess the best way to start a blog is to introduce oneself. my name is francesca and i am an artist living in the mountains. my childhood development was in texas, the city during the school week and the country on my grandparent's ranch on the weekends. my college years and early adult life was spent in the hill country of texas. after living in the lowland countryside for years, my desires for the mountains became stronger. a dream of montana, a trip to montana, then a move to montana . . . it was that quick that i knew there was more out there to experience and it was to be had by heading to the mountains.

even though i graduated from college with an art degree, the idea of doing it for a living kind of took the fun away, so earnings came from quite diverse forms of skills and interests. in texas, i dabbled in bookkeeping, fell into a veterinary assistant position, and owned a video store out at the lake. in montana, and now colorado, i have been a mountain bike tour guide, a ski instructor, firefighter, ems ambulance crew member, and search & rescue volunteer. possessing the travelbug gene (bummed around central europe for a summer after college), i have been gifted with travels to tahiti, new zealand, ecuador, canada, and eastern europe.

my life just keeps evolving with each moment and my art seems to be following suit. i live in the mountains with my extremely talented & wonderful writer husband and our two loving & special border collies. not only is my life inspired by art, my art is inspired by life.