Australian How To Paint

Animal Life in Colour and Light

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Born in the cold Boston, Massachusetts area, but raised in early childhood in Kailua, Hawaii, Jen Callahan has never lost her love of the sea and it’s creatures. Each morning after her Mom completed household chores; it was off to Kailua Beach, only a mile away, to spend time on the sand and play in waves, searching in the worn lava tidal pools

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