Recent update to my website

I thought someone might enjoy this update to my "artist bio"...

But how it really got started...

Born in Raritan, New Jersey in 1963, Belin attributes a life-time love affair with creative expression to a handful of early childhood experiences. Beginning with a kindegarten teacher who after viewing a family portrait painted on ceramic by 6-year old Belin, stated: "Jeez! You should NEVER seek a career as an artist! This is awful, you really should have tried a little harder to do something nice for your parent's Christmas present!" Little did the teacher know she totally stoked the fire of Belin's soon to be well-documented rebellious nature.

A year or so later after Belin and her younger sister, Cheryl, came to find themselves living with an estranged (as well as strange) native-Texan mother-of-step in Poughkeepsie, New York - Belin was caught stealing balloons out of her teacher's desk after she decided to give the balloons away like Robin Hood to the rest of her classmates. This act resulted in being carted off to a psychologist once a week for approximately a year. Included in those awkward visits were numerous batteries of evaluation, including many requests to graphically represent family members as well as her feelings in order to grock deeper insight in to the workings of Belin's assumed deranged state of mind.

After coming to live in Texas and upon returning to life with her mother, at 14-years, Belin's rebelliousness again won her a seat in the office of yet another trained professional in the study of physchology... by this time she had become quite adept at creating pictures representative of her emotional state and people close to her, for she received numerous accolades from her doctor and who's resulting diagnosis accurately stated: "She is merely a rebellious teenager, and will eventually grow-up."

And so it goes...