MY EARLIEST PAINTING - MA PREMIÈRE PEINTURE
English Version - *version française dessous* MY EARLIEST PAINTING I have no recollection of my first painting efforts. Nevertheless, I was told about it many times as I grew up. My parents moved into a duplex on Patricia Avenue in NDG, a suburb of Montreal two weeks before I was born. My Grandfather and my Uncle Bob lived on the first floor and we lived above them. I was the first of four kids. Apparently, if I had been a girl, my parents were going to name me “Patricia” after the street. PHOTO/S: ROSANNE, STEPHEN & ME WITH GRANDPA Both Mom and Dad worked. During the day, Grandpa and Uncle Bob took care of me and in the summer they used to put me in backyard so I would not wake up my newly arrived siblings, Rosanne and Stephen, twins who arrived two years after me followed by my youngest brother Robby, a year after the twins. According to family lore, when I was just over three, I escaped from