A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can't have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences, full of faith trials... I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it... I still do have visions that inspire my work.

So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed.

For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.

My understanding of Heaven has expanded and deepened since my first encounter with visions and dreams of Heaven.

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

I was so young but started having these visions and impressions of the world.

I don't belong to any religions, I really belong to God.