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I made this painting from several different vacation pictures of my friend, to show how zebras and wildebeests are able to co-exist together. They eat the same grass but different parts of the grass. Therefore, they can live very well together. As a dreamer and optimist, I like to imagine how we as humans could take an example.

Born on Curacao and raised in the Netherlands and in the Caribbean, I have lived since March 2005 in the United States. As a teenager, I was very fortunate to be a student of the Caribbean painter Luis (Luigi) Benjamin Pinedo, who introduced me to oil and pastel. Although I participated in art shows, accepted commissions, and sold my art in the Caribbean, United States and Europe over the past 20 years, I was still considering painting as a hobby besides my full time office job. In 2009 I turned my passion and hobby into a career. For the past couple of years my heart inclines more towards fantasy and children's book illustration. November 2011, I started working on my first children's book, when I realized that I lacked important...