Alicia grew up in the Philippine islands, where her parents were missionaries. Needless to say, she had an interesting and rather exciting childhood. Alicia was artistic as a child, and loved designing and making costumes for her fashion dolls, sketching, and art in general at an early age. Alicia and her family eventually moved back to the US. During junior high and high school she began a struggle with chronic illness, that continues to be debilitating at times. During this time of being limited in her activities, she discovered sculpting somewhat by accident! She was experimenting with some clay, and decided to sculpt a figure that she could costume. She was amazed to find that there was a name for this type of "figurative sculpture", ART DOLLS! Alicia was thrilled to have found something that combined so many mediums. With one of a kind art dolls, she is able to sculpt, paint, sew, design, etc. and it keeps her from ever getting bored!

Alicia is an animal lover, and has three poodles and two Eclectus parrots. Alicia's love of parrots has extended into sculpting parrot jewelry, which is currently keeping her busy. You may view her parrot art at www.ParrotJewelry.com. The daily struggle with illness and keeping up with jewelry orders leaves little time for art dolls anymore, but she hopes to continue to make them whenever she can.

Besides sculpting and her animals, Alicia's other passion is theatre- particularly the Phantom of the Opera! She fell in love with the story when she first read the original novel at the age of 12. Since then, she has enjoyed seeing the various musicals and plays based on this well-known story. It is not surprising to find that much of her work is centering around the Phantom of the Opera theme. Pictured (at right) is Alicia with her favorite Phantom, Brad Little (and his Phantom doll) and her grandmother. Alicia is blessed to have a wonderful family that encourages her and her artwork greatly!