
Most of your know I live daily with pain. I have FM. Fibromyalgia, a pain that is in the entire body and there is no cure. Lately I have been battling pain in my shoulder, arm, neck that is almost debilitating. Doctors have sent me to PT with no benefit. I have tried everything my friends tell me about…. even recently the “dry needle!!!” There are hours and days I am in more pain than I can deal with.
I am not complaining, I am actually rejoicing. With this disease, I have learned to really appreciate everything, everyday.
Also as most of you know I started my own business last year. I joined my company with my business partner. I was asked to be a Key Note speaker in Vienna, Austria at the 2012 Euro Risk Summit. I was fearful to take this journey…. how could I tote my luggage, handle a long flight, deal with being away from a doctor if I need one? God opened a door for me and I walked through. When God opens a door He walks through that door with you, He does not just push you inside and say, good luck!!!
God knew one of my life long dreams was to travel in Europe one last time before I was too crippled to travel. I wanted to see Italy, the Eiffel Tower, Rome, Venice, Florence and eat spaghetti!!
Here is how God worked. I introduced my business partner to the summit and he was asked to be the lead for one of the risk tracks and speak with me. So off we went to our speaking engagement and … yes, I was able to visit all those places in my dreams. I will never forget the smells of Italian cooking, the sounds of the long train trip to Venice, the feel of the Eiffel Tower to my fingers, the sight of people from all over the world in Rome and the experience of speaking at an International Summit.
If I were to ask you to take one thing away from my experience, I would want you to know that God knows our dreams, even ones we thing we will NEVER get to experience, HE knows. When I stop during my busy day to have an espresso, I go back to my summer when God showed me once again He knows.
I paint intuitively by embracing spontaneity to allow passionate paintings to be born through a transforming layering process of acrylics and inks. Each layer informs the next story of paint. In addition to layers often you will find sand, coffee, glass beads or perhaps even a gum wrapper invoking the question of what story is being revealed. I paint what I feel, how I feel, and each found object in my art continues that story. It is my hope that you find a connection to my work and might, if only for a moment, become captivated and feel something within yourself. The art I create are visual expressions of my inner soul, spirit and passion. Once a corporate entrepreneur trapped inside a suit and wearing heels, the desire to put my feelings, thoughts, and emotions on canvas became too powerful. The life-changing event that turned the corporate pen into a paintbrush was the dark world of Alzheimer’s that struck my mother. I could not wait any longer to paint in the event that world captured me as well. Leaving the boardroom behind, what has emerged is a new language expressed on canvas. This language expresses the freedom and unbound passion to create and let my art direct itself without fear or influences that has previously stifled my intuitive style.
Constantly moving around the world, staying in one place no longer than three years at one time, living in the back of a musician’s studio, provided the opportunity to meet vast numbers of different people from all walks of life.
These experiences set the canvas for the style of abstracts I paint because I find these people, locations, and experiences are represented in each painting in some way.
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