Biography
THIS IS WHAT BEING A Brain Injured, 50 year old, woman artist looks like - INEXHAUSTIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVITY!
More and more words can escape me so when the thoughts come in verbal form inside my mind I know I have to stop and listen and write it down because it is important.
The reason why...
THIS IS WHAT BEING A Brain Injured, 50 year old, woman artist looks like - INEXHAUSTIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVITY!
More and more words can escape me so when the thoughts come in verbal form inside my mind I know I have to stop and listen and write it down because it is important.
The reason why I say that more and more words have a tendency to escape me is because ever since my accident, on February 26th, 2004 words and me have grown apart, with less in common and the visual language has become my nearest and dearest friend that keeps me company, even in my darkest hours, which there have be many.
Through the hardships in my life, from the divorce, then later partner leaving the relationship, loosing the life I had before my accident, my day job that supported me and my work, the house, then apartment and most of my belongings, and even being homeless for a while, but despite all of this, my work is the one constant thing in my life, my creativity. It has been my friend, my companion even my lover at times and it is what drove me to become a better artist, a better person in which I constantly expand the ways and techniques in which I create, ALWAYS!
Because of it I have been able to further enhance the strength of my feminine side which has become even more complex than I ever could have imagined. By nature my curiosity is insatiable and my work can be very physical at times with it always evolving, intuitively. In a way having the Brain Injury and allowing certain aspects of my life to succumb to my limitations, I choose to embrace them and at times move side by side cohesively with the knowledge I gain from my experiences of being an artist/creative with The Invisible Disability.
So with that said here is my work, my story, in the language I know best!
When you are buying a piece of art from me, whether it is a painting, drawing or collage, you are buying a piece of my life. A piece of my history, her story. A piece of my emotions, my feelings, my experiences of what I go through. As a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury (I have had four concussions) my life did an abrupt halt and so I had to listen. Listen to the changes and move with them instead of always fighting against them. Here you see my joy, my pain, my liveliness, my sorrow, my beauty, my determination, my will power, my darkness and yes my lightness. It is an honest life. A life well lived and despite loosing my life I had, my house, my home, my job and even being homeless for a while, I wouldn’t take it back for anything in the world because it has brought me here, to you. The you who is reading this and I welcome you into my world of creativity and I look forward to sending you one of my original works of art!!
