Art Blog: The Deceitful Art of Heart

Sunflowers – a journey

Most of the beautiful things I have ever created came after a period of heartache and turbulence. It is literally like giving birth, you must allow the old patterns and once safe ground to shatter, and allow yourself to be broken open, eventually from the cracks and wounds, a new life can come to be. It is in the heartache that we realize that we no longer fit into the old life that we identify ourselves with. A change must be made, we must build ourselves up from the crumbles and pieces, to become new. It can be a terrifying experience to break away from the old life, but refusing the invitation is not an option. The old self either shatters from within or is crushed by outer events.

Three generations of art making women