I have a BS in Biology and I have worked at several zoos as zookeeper, and volunteer. I spent 15 years as a veterinary assistant at the Exotic Pet and Bird Clinic, and the last 8 years at Evergreen Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital, catering to everything that creeps, crawls, flies or swims.
Currently I create embroidery designs for home and commercial embroidery machines. My specialty is of course animals, especially parrots.
I haven't spent a lot of time in the last 20 years doing much traditional art (guess how old my kids are), but I am slowing getting back into it. Of course I have way too many interests, so that does not help to focus. In the last few years I have been playing around with digital art and 3D modeling.