Cecile Albert Naggar

Cecile Albert Naggar was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, Canada. When she was 6 years old, her grandmother inspired her with some fun drawing tips which fired up in Cecile's life-long love of art. From grade 4, teachers asked her to draw the Christmas themes in the classroom. In High School she was the sole artist for the monthly school Newspaper two years in a row - being in-charge of creating the covers, the illustrations, the cartoons, and writing articles. Her favorite teacher in high school gave her a gift of an Art Kit to thank Cecile for her after-school volunteer help.

On finishing high school she worked in the government in the area of composing and proofreading reports for 10 years but kept drawing and used her artistic talent in creating crafts. She hand-crafted clay cats, dogs, frogs, beavers, elephants, and mice, which she sold at various craft stores.

Then in her spare time she studied professional art and freelance writing which she passed with Honors. She continued her passion for art and writing by illustrating and publishing ebooks at her website "Lighthouse Emporium" (which includes her artwork, ebooks, and other services).

She found that there is beauty everywhere by traveling to England, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Egypt. Her admiration of Egypt has help her to create a series of Egyptian inspired art and books.

She was held back by 6 years of being in and out of the hospital with various illnesses.

With a new beginning to her career, Cecile is now working on "The Journeyman Series", which will reflect a voyage of her life using the stages of the Tarot Cards (her other passion of 25 years) as an inspiration - sets in this series will be titled: "Learning"; "Challenges"; "Demons within"; and "Spiritual Achievement".