YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ARTIST
TO HEAL WITH ART
TO HEAL WITH ART
Midwest Book Review
Inherently absorbing, singularly fascinating, completely compelling, and truly extraordinary memoir that is as deftly crafted as it is impressively candid, "Frida and Me: Art, and One Woman's Triumph Over PTSD" is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections.
Inherently absorbing, singularly fascinating, completely compelling, and truly extraordinary memoir that is as deftly crafted as it is impressively candid, "Frida and Me: Art, and One Woman's Triumph Over PTSD" is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections.
Art Images from Frida and Me
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Community Art & Comments
As an advocate for the arts this space is dedicated to all the inspired people I've met through my work. I want to share their art and comments so that you will witness art healing in all their many forms!
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Dawn Bewick |
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Strength of Eli Dawnydevil9@gmail.com Facebook: Dawn Bewick Instagram: |
Mimi Grace Burk Instagram: @mimigracexy www.mimigraceart.com
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Nina Shope, Snapdragon:
Unique Fiber and Folk Art Talismans, folk art, and objects of creative and spiritual inspiration have helped me feel emotionally and artistically connected throughout my life. My goal as an artist is to craft pieces that possess the same power, resonance, and healing energy for others. Each of my creations honors the mythic and archetypal forces of struggle, pain, survival, triumph, and metamorphosis. Online & Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/snapdragonoriginals Email: snapdragon1313@gmail.com |
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John McDonald
John paints with unashamed passion and pathos and has received international acclaim for
Butterfly Cry, a series of portraits of Frida Kahlo.
Born in a Glasgow tenement, John left school with a piece of paper (no certificates) stating that he was deaf.
“I commenced my career as an artist from a place of physical and mental pain, with my Butterfly Cry series
introducing a narrative that conveys suffering.... becoming beauty.
This is a narrative I am pushing further now: testing the power of empathy for a fuller version of humanity, with its muddle and contradiction; testing the power of Art to create personal growth and autonomy in individuals,
and real social change in our immediate communities”.
I’ve come through my Dark, Dark, Dark period,
And it’s my painting that’s bringing me Light, Light, Light
John paints with unashamed passion and pathos and has received international acclaim for
Butterfly Cry, a series of portraits of Frida Kahlo.
Born in a Glasgow tenement, John left school with a piece of paper (no certificates) stating that he was deaf.
“I commenced my career as an artist from a place of physical and mental pain, with my Butterfly Cry series
introducing a narrative that conveys suffering.... becoming beauty.
This is a narrative I am pushing further now: testing the power of empathy for a fuller version of humanity, with its muddle and contradiction; testing the power of Art to create personal growth and autonomy in individuals,
and real social change in our immediate communities”.
I’ve come through my Dark, Dark, Dark period,
And it’s my painting that’s bringing me Light, Light, Light
