My {Art} Story…
I have always loved creating.
When I was a little girl, I was in love with art. I found
the smell of a new box of crayons intoxicating, and loved getting my hands wet
with finger paints! My favorite memories were coloring, painting and pressing
beautiful flowers into books.
After spending many years writing professionally about other
people and for other people, I felt a nagging emptiness in my life and need to
create once again. There was more
I wanted to do creatively and I decided to branch out with a blog – Keystrokes
and Kaleidoscopes – to marry my love of words with my colorful need to create.
Suffering a personal loss with the death of our
2-year-old daughter, I began healing by finding unexpected beauty in every day
life. I am intrigued by the simply ordinary beauty of life breathing
around me.
A wildflower in a vase.
A
weathered door to an old building.
A
cotton field burning white in the hot sun that looks like a blanket of snow.
A
deer that has seen the nature create before his eyes.
A
field going to sleep with the sun kissing it gently after a long day of
growing.
These things intrigue me and I want to tell their stories on
canvas. .
Hope, love, faith and goodness are recurrent themes in my
works. The bulk of my work tends to be perfectly imperfect,
creating many of my pieces with a palette knife adding organic layers of
interest and texture. I try to feel
my pieces as I paint them, creating an emotive scene or snapshot that evokes souls
to stir and feel. Whether it’s
through an abstract angel, a lone barn or a cheerful bouquet of flowers, I love to capture a piece of unassuming
beauty or hope in an often times dark and broken world.
Many of my pieces are purposefully happy and
hopeful as I believe in coloring the world we live by spreading joy. I invite you to join me and capture
some of the magical kaleidoscope we get to call “life”.
