Shawnti Therrien

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Eeek, you've found me. The fact that your here means that you'd like to know a little bit more about me...or you took a really wrong turn and happened across my bio page quite accidentally. I'm hoping its not the latter and you meant to come her, but either way, welcome!

[edit] Basic Facts About Me

• I was born in 1975. I've lived most of my life on the Connecticut shoreline in America. I have a wonderful husband who is not even a year younger than I am, and a son who was born in 2000. I am overly passionate (so I've been told) about most things I commit myself to which often works much to my detriment. I do not have a college degree though I have been to college. My vocational training was not in the arts, but in animal sciences. I am the proud owner of a multitude of "saved" animals that represent just about the entire food chain and am in debt to my patient husband for his help in their care.

• Now you are wondering why I am an artist and writer despite that there is no real indication of arts in my education or lifestyle... I feel there is a great amazing beauty in the world. So many things which can not be expressed by simple words, a mindless embrace of physicality, or realized in any medium other than a full unabashed release of the soul. So I am an artist and a writer as a means of garish self expression. I have something to say and feel the need to say it on a level that can be both moving and painful. This was the easiest way to explain why I have become what I am, out of necessity as opposed to education. Perhaps that is a lame excuse...but it is no less valid than any other reason I could feed you, and is the truth.

• My education in the arts started when I was a very small child. At the ripe age of three I started experimenting with anatomy and pastels, handed down to me by the artists in the studio where my babysitting happened. Perhaps it was that time when my fate was decided as I remember seeing a picture that was done by my babysitter and thinking, "One day I will be as good as that... One day I will be better than that." Lofty goals for a child but I can even remember what the room smelled like when I thought it, and could recreate the picture on a canvas in a matter of moments. Though still informal, my education continued and finally came to a head when I was introduced to the teachers at Connecticut College some years later. I was very young but was able to sit in on classes over the span of two years. The teachers there are the cause of what I can do currently. I learned from them that even the smallest details are worthy of attention... feet, toes, hands, the small differences you can perceive in someone's face as their mood changes. I was taught the nuances of subtlety and find myself cowering because I'm in their debt, even now. All of this was classical training... so now you're wondering how I came to be a comicer.