Lesley, I love your style and most of your works. Really digging the animals with patterned backgrounds you've been doing lately. But I came here to say how perfectly you manage a direct connection to my 8-year-old self when you draw children. I can't quite explain it. This girl, for instance-- she's simply me. I loved traipsing off, alone with my imagination, into the woods around our house. Searching for snakes under rocks, or lizards on trees, or a praying mantis to play with. Imagining fairy tail princes or movie monsters finding me. And there is no sense of wistfulness involved when I see these paintings-- simply a connection that makes me smile. Thank you!