Ive always been curious. I’ve always lifted the rock to look at the life underneath. I was blessed in early childhood with a combination of rural country cottage and big city. I saw the advantages and disadvantages of both.
Adult life began with attending the New England School of Art & Design on Newbury Street in Boston Massachusetts, and working at a printing factory.
After 2 years, I was asked to move out to California and be a nanny to my niece, I jumped at the chance to change direction, bravely flying solo and rearranging my entire known life.
California is amazing. It’s such a big state, that you’re able to literally visit desert and mountains in the same day.
I continued my art, and was in luck in finding a wonderful lithograph company to help produce quality prints I could sell. California offered beautiful weather, in which to work both outside and fill that curious self, that still lived deep inside me.
After 10 years I returned to Massachusetts to live with my dad, a retired navy Captain. He had sold our childhood home to a developer, a 67 acre old farm, which offered fields, forests, and freedom to grow up climbing trees, and catching frogs. I went back to see, with great disappointment, it was all houses and fenced yards. Gone were the fields and forests. Reality check.
Ive been in Massachusetts now for 30 plus years. Currently, I am a chocolatier. I am very happy in this medium, offering both delicious food, but also creating and learning. I own the most adorable mini horse a chestnut mare named Firefly, a rescue. I once again live in the forest surrounded by trees and fields and a lake.
–Barbara Le