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It all started when a friend told me, ‘Everyone is an artist, including you, Sue.’
I welcome you to explore my gallery of personal art healing done at different times, under different pressures, joys, challenges—some are raw, some are stark, some are soft. They were all healing for me for their own reasons. Creating art is healing and it is ageless. I was in my mid-fifties when I heeded my friend’s advice and began to draw and then to paint. The young, the elders, and everyone in between can participate in the magic of creating— from mud pies to digital art.
A creative imagination is virtually boundless in using media, whether finger paints, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, charcoal, oils, pencils, fabrics, mud, or computer program digital art. Over the years I've experimented with all of the above and have liked each of them for various reasons. The creamy richness of the feel and the color of pastels, the immediacy of acrylics, the translucence of watercolors, the quickness of charcoals, the easy ‘clean up’ with digital art. All make my heart sing when I'm playing with them. A singing heart is a healing heart.
We have all experienced moments of inspiration, moments of sublime well-being, and moments of transcendence. Art provides an avenue into such moments. Art expression is a form of healing, an art for the soul. Healing and art are fundamentally interchangeable in all aspects of life.
My art is a self-expression of healing and well-being. It is my soul art. Sources for my richly diverse artistic process are inner healing inspirations from meditations, dreams, and shamanic journeys of communing with spirit, as well as, the external, mundane everyday experiences of living.
I have worked with and played with various media and subjects. Subjects range anywhere from silly to sublime—from cute cats with an attitude to shamanic spirit cougars. Each medium, each subject is a means of expressing the inner essence of my being, the hidden truths, the inspirational guidance of those creative moments. They serve as powerful visual representations and reminders of my unique ‘soul speak’ in the moment.