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I was born in Vietnam, but I spent my formative years in Aurillac, a French town in the Auvergne region. Since I spent a lot of time drawing fictional characters for comic strips and homemade movies, it was not until my senior year in high school that I worked on an actual portrait for the first time.
A friend gave me pictures of her grandparents, and asked me to draw the two of them together. I later learned that someone cried when she saw the final product. I was then told that I had given life to a couple that had passed away—a fact unknown to me up until then. Deeply moved and realizing I could touch someone’s life through my drawings, I started to focus more on drawing people.
At the age of seventeen I landed in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where I pursued a career in the sciences while continuing to draw on the side. I now hold a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with my husband Mike.
When someone asks me how I taught myself to draw portraits, I tell them it’s mostly a lot of patience and a lot of love.