I’ve always loved creating art, but in therapy I learned using a Blowtorch to paint regulated my emotions and created beautiful things.
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Encaustic (melted wax) paintings. I like art that creates an emotion. Whether it’s looking at the modern day, Audrey blowing a bubble of gum-I can hear her singing. “I don’t care. I love it.” Or the Coal-miner, who is weary in the dark looking for the shiny coal. Or the girl, immersed underwater, deep in thought before she rises to take a a breath. These are the paintings that still speak to me after I make them. They remind me of people I know and parts of myself.
Where do you find inspiration?People are my inspiration. Whether I paint them, they inspire a landscape or I just celebrate them and their accomplishment. I love making people happy and creating something for them brings them joy.
What would you do with $25,000?Encaustic supplies are very expensive. So I’m sure a large part of it would go to that. So I could create more art and not be hindered by waiting until I had enough money. And perhaps a way to get my art in front of more people. I need help with that. I’m not very good at selling, better at just hiding in my painting room. But one thing I have done as a nurse and as a fiction writer, I have always paid it forward and I hope I can do that. If I can get some adventurous hearts. 😊
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