SUZANNE PERSHING

It began with Grandma, who told outrageous stories and raised creative children. Her first born was my mom. Beth Jacobs was an award winning writer of fiction and non-fiction,  published by the time she was 13, who taught me to read and write before I entered kindergarten. 

Second came a son, Roy DeForest, who would one day be famous abstract artist and an art teacher at UC Davis. When I was barely five Uncle Roy was drawing with me at our kitchen table and teaching me to draw too.  

Because of my amazing family, I knew that I could be anything and I always knew I wanted to be an artist. I learned from Mom that words can paint a picture and from Uncle Roy that a picture paints a thousand words.  I learned from Grandma that each work of Art should tell a story, each piece be a poetic passage to a place that is at once protected and profound.  

A place where it is safe to ask …what if?