Category: Bipolar Disorder

• An Introduction and Trigger Warning!

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  09/10/2019

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  art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Creativity, Flashbacks, gratitude, Hope, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, PTSD, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy

  Boom. Just like that! I pushed a button, chose the business plan, and I’m up and running… Why don’t you come run with me for a while? You can see me falter, catch my breath, take a few more steps, laugh, get a stitch in my side, take another step or two…and then give it…

  

• A Saint Petersburg Artist Resident

  2–3 minutes

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  03/02/2019

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  acrylic, art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, faith, Flashbacks, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Hope, Injustice, Joy, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, moving day, moving on, Oil, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, recycled, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, Therapy, treasures, Vigil

  It has been an enormously trying year and one half, year and 8 months , actually. I have grown SO much since I have lived here in St. Petersburg, I have learned to believe in myself, and in my ability to survive. As An ARTIST.  In my own right, I have put in the footwork, stretched…

  

• We’re All Innocent by Susan T. Martin

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  12/24/2018

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  acrylic, art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Creativity, death, Denial, faith, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, recycled, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy, treasures

  This painting is Mixed Media on Canvas, 24″x 36″ signed and unframed. It is the culmination of months of work and thought, and is now, finally, at a stage I can call finished. I think we have spoken to one another long enough, now I will let it speak to you. There are many ways…

  

• Evolution of Self 2008-2018

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  08/17/2018

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flowers, Found Objects, garden Photography, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Oil, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, sexual assault

         Quite a Journey, this “Being Me”…These images only show a tiny portion of my different self images, and perhaps one day I will caption them. Right nowI’m just too, too tired…

  

• Another Facet

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  07/30/2018

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, faith, Flashbacks, Flowers, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, garden Photography, gift, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, out of the gutter, Photography, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, recycled, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized

   

  

• “YEARNING” by SUSAN T. MARTIN

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  06/12/2018

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  acrylic, art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, faith, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, PTSD, Real Life

  waiting. longing. for relief to come. Mixed Media on Canvas 20″x 16″ by Susan T. Martin opening image is photographed with a light source behind the painting. This image is under regular light, the source overhead. I enjoy adding a little hidden dialogue to the painting, that the viewer has to work for, and think…

  

• Jello Mold? Really?

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  05/13/2018

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, out of the gutter, painting, PTSD, re-purposed, recycled, Therapy, treasures

  

• The Lemon Tree Box

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  02/02/2018

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, faith, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, hospice, Injustice, Joy, love, mental illness, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, recycled, shih-tzus, sobriety, Therapy, treasures, Vigil

  POINTILLISM, YAY! One of my favorite methods of mark making! So satisfying to see the images take shape, to know I did it with nary a line, just marvelous dots! ah, but the little box is not finished,not in pictures one and 2…   and not in the little video…so where is the little Lemon…