Atlanta-based illustrator Lonnie Ollivierre was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines where he lived with his father and two sisters. He first experienced the world of art via his father, who was a sign painter. As a child, he relocated to Brooklyn where he taught himself to paint from comic books he collected. As he grew up he dreamed of becoming a cartoonist, and later a painter after studying Norman Rockwell. He paints the things that he sees in his everyday life, with his family and friends being the source of his work through which he hopes to inspire, educate, and uplift others.