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I just moved to San Antonio from NJ in July 2024 and am happy to be included on the registry. I am a self-taught artist who has spent many years experimenting in mixed media while exhibiting and selling work in shows in NY and NJ. I have been teaching classes for over 35 years and developed a series of workshops called “art-as-therapy” to work with those suffering with illness and adversity, especially cancer patients and their families, bereavement support groups, and women’s groups. I have dedicated my life in the belief that art is therapeutic and can help others speak words hard to say, express feelings, and take pride in themselves.
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Artist Type: Literary Arts: Poet; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Ceramist, Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Sculptor, Textiles
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My Gardens of Hope paintings are created with a combination of media starting with a dynamic watercolor or an acrylic background and then overlapping it with textured paper flowers and foliage which often spill out of the matt. To that I add beads, hand-made papers and paint assembling the work piece by piece into a dazzling finished work of art. Through exploration and experimentation my compositions are continually changing as I create a lively colorful frolicsome expression of nature. My Children at Play series are created through torn paper collage methods to give you a moment of childhood joy and the love of play. And my series of Texturescapes are made with acrylics and specialty papers to create a dimensional vision of the beauty I see in the fields and hills that inspire a sense of awe. I am also a teacher and workshop facilitator of my uniquely designed “art-as-therapy” programs geared to those teaching and servicing others such as: nurses, therapists, and art teachers giving them methods to help support those who are in need to voice words hard to speak and find a way of expressing their inner life through art.