Visual Art – Charlotte
The hardest part of any application is where they ask you to tell everyone about yourself. What we all want to know is what kind of art do I make and when did my love of art begin.
I have always been an artist but I only recently accepted it to be true. What I do best is figure out how things work. When I was a little girl my aunt taught me how to sew. My mom taught me how to crochet and in the confines of those two activities I lived a simple life content with those two skills and two small children. But on the side I was known to most as "miss fix it" and my brother would say that if I couldn't fix it then no one could.
In the beginning of 2016 my father died which left a very big whole in my family. The next christmas I used the wood from his trailer to make my brother a trash holder. I searched my brothers facebook page and in 2 days I had a masterpiece. I had painted only one other canvas before that and it one looked like a childs painting. This one turned out so well that I ended up with over 500 likes on facebook. I fell in love with painting.
In 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a small tumor in a tricky location it was the worst kind. I was lucky, Divine intervention saved my life. I only had cancer long enough to scare me. Despite the odds I found my cancer when only one lymph node was hot. So as I lay in bed recovering from the exhaustion of chemo I realized that I was not meant to keep my art hidden. I am an artist and I need to get out there and show everyone that I am more then the little sister trying to make her brothers christmas special.
I list myself as more of a multi-media artist because I do not just paint. I do not just draw. I do not just sculpt. I have spent a lifetime of curiosity devoted to how things work just for the sake of knowing.