Born in Mosta (Malta) on the 10th February 1960 to Aldo and Marita Neè Tabone.
From childhood I had a passion for drawing, sketching and modelling. I was continually guided and helped to develop a kind of discipline of academic art by my grandfather, the well-known artist Gianni Vella (1885-1977).
At the age of thirteen I was admitted to the Malta School of Art under Censu Apap and Esprit Barthet.
I had completed the full course, obtaining successful results in my annual exam for the high standard of artistic studies in drawing and painting.
From 1974-1977, I completed a full – time course in ceramics under John Bonnici and Gabriel Caruana, receiving the school Diploma.