Thanks for visiting FuzzyFluidArt, and I'm Francine.  I'm a writer, an artist, a chemist and drug development scientist, a foodie and amateur cook, a dog lover, a bookworm, an Anglophile (especially all things Welsh!) and an unabashed lover of Arthuriana (mostly of the Welsh variety).  My husband also likes to say I am a repository of arcane and useless knowledge, which has very little use in the real world, but is tops when it comes to trivia....

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As a child, my days were filled with drawing, reading and writing stories, often drawing characters or scenes from stories that affected me.  Over time, I began experimenting with different media.  Pencils (colored, charcoals), pens, and pastels (oil, chalk) became quick favorites.  I dabbled in paints and watercolors, but always returned to pencils.

 

While my creativity had been nurtured in my youth, I was urged to be rational: I could always “draw and write” on the side.  Since I’d always excelled in the sciences, I majored in Chemistry and unpredictably, found both enjoyment and success in it.

 

I spent a little over a decade as a drug delivery scientist before deciding to zig.  My love of books, reading and writing never stopped, and I left BigPharma to earn my Masters in English.  I fell headlong into the literary landscape, terrified and exhilarated at everything I was experiencing and doing.  Though thoroughly ensconced in the “creative” space, I found so much about it was actually analytical and required critical thought.  But when I graduated two years later, the pull of science was strong, and I ended up back in BigPharma, this time as a Medical Writer.

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But fifteen years and three mergers later, I was drained.  Exhausted.  While I still loved what I did, it was no longer fulfilling.  There was too much politics, and I've never been one to play that game.  I wanted to concentrate on my actual writing—fiction this time, not medical or technical writing—and revisit drawing once more.  So once again, I decided to zag.

Then through the power of YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, I discovered fluid art, and I was enraptured.  Lo and behold, a whole new world opened up to me.