Chapters of Recovery-mixed media

Recovery is like a book with different chapters. Sometimes those chapters reflect on the events of the past building into the present story and shared the emotions of the present. Each chapter can reflect the different feelings of joy, pain, or grief.
My art ebbs and flows like chapters or the changing of seasons. Different life events or plot twists are like the changes of colors or the media used you can see how my media changes but still sticks with the traditional of painting here.
The greatest influences on my art include my father who has been a local sign painter and interior designer for decades, several of my art teachers from high school here in Rogers and college professors. Learning from each of them the many ways to to use different mediums incorporates new challenges.
Each piece represented here is an expression of myself and a different chapter in my life: emptiness/loneliness; joy and beauty; grief and anger; and finding strength through God’s promises to …”strengthen me and help me; and He will uphold me with His righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10b NIV-edits are mine.