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Welcome to my website. The broad brush strokes of my life are:

Childhood – small Catholic school, piano, great friends, lovely relatives and kind/caring parents and fun-loving sister, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

University life, Fine Arts, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, learned about living alone, first boyfriend and having a studio, making art, indulging in many mind-altering substances – Eureka!

University Life, Graduate School Columbia University, Apprenticeship New York City, Art Restoration, a new world of possibilities, a giant city to be lost in. I love New York for sure.

Paris, Learn French language at the L’Institut Catholique de Paris, Art Restoration, ahh…beautiful Paris

Change of focus to Computer Science New Mexico, in love with the New Mexican desert.

…California, New Mexico, Switzerland, Pittsburgh, Hike/Swim/Study, meet a larger than life Englishman, Daughter born – dazzling, Research work, cool colleagues.

Sheffield, Computer Science. EU projects, family life, another stunning daughter born, Theatre Set Design, I’m in love with theatre

Oxford, UK Computer science, Magazine publishing, Theatre set Design, back to Printmaking, Singing in Oxford University Press choir and New College School Choral Society, plus Ohuki ukulele band. I’m in love with singing and choirs.

The photo above contains my Dad, (far right), Robert/”Bob” Catizone, 17 years old in his high school production of The Mikado at Oliver High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1933.

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About

From the beginning my passion was music. Listening to music gave me a sense of joy like none other. And when I discovered singing in a choir in Oxford in my 50s, I was in heaven.

I’m interested in cartooning in troubled times. My background is in Fine Arts (printmaking and painting) and Computer science, specifically computers and language. I grew up happily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania living a sheltered life in the suburbs which presented almost no threatening situations or social challenges. I went to a State University in Pennsylvania and met mostly middle class people like myself. Listened to lots of music, did lots of drawing, painting and printmaking, experimented with hallucinogenics (Mary Jane+) and tried to understand who I was and what I was supposed to be doing on earth. I finished a degree in fine arts with no immediate prospects, so went to graduate school in New York City where life at 20 began.

Lockdown fun : me playing ‘Friday I’m in Love’ with the OUP ukulele band, Ohuki