I love to paint pictures celebrating popular culture and consider myself a bit of a media junky. I'm addicted to biographies, because I'm interested in how people become wildly successful despite often crazy upbringings and/or adverse circumstances. But hey, I also like to paint regular folks. I am fascinated by the joyful, nonjudgmental world children inhabit, which has inspired me to create many pictures for children's books. Born in rainy Vancouver, Canada, I moved to NY in 1991 to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts. My home and studio is now in Park Slope, Brooklyn with my husband Sean Qualls, who is also an illustrator and our son Isaiah. The raining letters on my home page are a tribute to the city I grew up in.