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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

The arts have always been in and around my life.