Liz Here Now, oil on canvas board, 2016 As a child I wrote and illustrated a lot of stories. There was one about a snake. Why snakes? Perhaps it was easy to replicate a snake in varying poses and plots very quickly. The snake has a magic carpet. An influence of the present popularity of Aladdin, perhaps? I also illustrated with my best friend, who now makes her own drawings in CAD as a successful Interior Designer. We wrote cutting edge news (Madonna had a baby!) and kep