Lucy grew up in the Deep South, that’s South Texas. She didn’t have much to do in a very small and rural town called Laredo, so she and her siblings would let their imaginations run wild. She is the youngest of seven; this is where she gets her artist’s nickname, “Seventh M&M.” She considers herself the “wild one” of the family, more like a shy Mowgli from The Jungle Book, because she spent a lot of time outdoors. Her family didn’t have a fence, so their backyard was the vast landscape of endless woods where they spent playing hide and seek and exploring every acre of it all the way to the river. Lucy and her siblings would go swimming in the Rio Grande River in the hot summers. In 1985 she moved to Central Texas where she fell in love with Austin. She has very fond memories of growing up in Texas with its beautiful landscapes and sunsets.
Lucy first started loving art when she would see her older siblings drawing and painting. Her brother was great at
sketching and watercolors. Her inspiration for art came from her Junior High art teacher, Marilyn S. De King. Lucy was the third and last member of her family to take her class. That’s when she discovered Leonardo da Vinci and fell in love with everything he had ever created. After junior high, she got interested in the sciences and stopped drawing. She later took up drawing after she had her children, Nadine & Karim. They brought out the creative side of her and she began taking art classes at Los Angeles City College. Taking her art education seriously she graduated with an Associate of Arts Degree in Fine Art from College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA in August 2005. She still feels that she has much to learn, but is very grateful to
have met so many talented instructors, art students and artists in the process.

She has experimented with different art media like sculpture, pencil, charcoal, acrylics, pastels, and photography to name a few. Her favorite scenes are landscapes and sunsets. Lucy still spends much of her time outdoors chasing after sunsets. She believes that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”