People like histories. So – here ya go.

When my mother went to do commission portraits, I’d go along. I was six years old. She told me my drawings were as good as hers. With encouragement like that, who wouldn’t want to just fall right into drawing every second possible?

I would hide under tables so no one would bother me, drawing on scraps of paper with the special pencils I filched from her. I found out later she left them out for me to find. Sneaky Ma.

Later on in high school, I did pencil portraits for school mates. In art school in New York, I studied graphic design, and went on to become an art director in a small ad agency in San Francisco.

Then the 60s hit, and it was smoke a lot of pot and don’t-tie-me-down! Off to Big Sur I went with my insanely heavy backpack, where I dropped lots of acid and hung out with the Grateful Dead. I began painting around that time; eventually my BF and I moved to Santa Cruz, where we started making pottery.

I loved clay. Just getting my hands into it was a rush. My first pots were made from coarse stoneware – no great shakes. But I persisted.

We built a couple of amazing high-fire kilns that roared like dragons during the cold dark nights under the stars. My last one was the best. Most kilns have at least a couple cold spots that don’t reach the high temps you want for glaze perfection – that one had not even one.

After close to 15 years of refining and honing my skills, I ended up making high-fired (3000 degrees) porcelain with very fine hand-drawn designs.

I invented a few processes that allowed me to get a translucent, high-fired mat glaze – impossible, they said! But I did it. To the left are two of the specialized pots I made at that time.

I also invented a way to do underglaze stains that didn’t run under the over-glaze. (Also supposedly impossible!)

In 1981, in a horrible accident, a guy ran a red light, plowed into me right behind me on the driver’s side, propelling my car into a full 180 degree swing into another car on the passenger side.

My beautiful Volvo station wagon was totaled – as was I. They said I’d never walk again. Fooey on that! I was supposed to raise two little boys without being able to walk? I don’t think so!

I fired three orthopedic docs who just wanted to stick me in a wheelchair for the rest of my life, and ply me with expensive medications. I was lucky – I found a chiropractor whose office was right down the street from me, and within 6 weeks I was back on my feet and running.

It was at that time that a friend introduced me to stone. Love at first sight. I’m still in love. Stone is the best medium yet for the simple, roundified forms I like to make.

And wouldn’t you know it? I never thought anything could snatch me away from stone, but suddenly, years later in October of ’17, I found myself going wild about watercolors.

Color just reaches in and grabs me by the guts – in 2018 I fell for bright, gem-colored chalk pastels, and did a whole series of silly, funky critters.

In 2021, I dove into surface pattern design, and over the next years, I have created more than 3500 designs for fabric, wallpaper, tiles, and other flat applications – both single designs and repeat designs.

The ones you see on this site are only a small fraction of the enormous number of designs I’ve done. I love it that I get to do tons of drawings with all the wild color I could possibly want.

I can’t seem to keep from dipping my fingers into all sorts of pies. I love to write, so I began writing stories and articles on Medium and Substack, and I add them and my latest images on my website AngelaTreatLyon.com for people who don’t have instagram or aren’t medium or substack members.

I started writing books completely by surprise. A well-respected energy coach asked me to write a book on EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques, because she liked how I presented case stories. So, I did!

Since then, I’ve written and compiled over 70 books, and I have designed and published books for other authors. You can find many of my books on amazon.com, and at AngelaTreatLyonBOOKS.com.

I believe that people should be able to read for very low cost, so I have many of my best books for free or very inexpensive prices (like 5 bucks) at atlyon.gumroad.com. I know – weird name. But so what? I like having my books laid out so nicely there. My latest books, The Inside Secrets, Volumes I – VII, are all there as ebooks, and on amazon in print.

You can see the many different types of stone sculpture I’ve done at AngelaTreatLyonART.com. There’s a whole lot of my other work, too – mandalas, pastels, books, both at that site, and at LyonArtandDesign.com.

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