This is a painting done by my mother, Yvonne. Her parish priest wanted her to paint the face of Christ for him so she did quite a few paintings. My mom used to be an art and craft teacher in Mumbai. She met my dad Maurice at art school while he studied fine art. My mom used to sell her paintings while she was in her teens. She also used to do cake decorations for weddings and centre pieces. She had a stroke two years ago but is back to painting and doing craft. When I was a child, mom would spend time with us teaching me and my sisters crafts. I learned knitting, embroidery; we used to make Christmas decorations and sell them, foil figures, paper mache, flowers. I learned so much from her and I love doing all kinds of crafts because of her but I wish I had taken drawing and painting lessons from her and dad.
