Category: clean

• The Journey, a Debut Art Video

  3–5 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, disability, dreams, faith, Flashbacks, 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 Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Jehovah God, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, repentance, Resurrection, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Vigil

    .  This project was a couple years in the making for me, and was born from the bottomless grief I was dealing with then. As caregiver to both of my parents after a 23 year-long active addiction, and after a devestating breakup of my marriage when my ex went to Federal Prison, I was…

  

• Keep Your Head…and Mine Too

  2–3 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, 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, grief, Handicapped, HighFinance, Hope, identity, identity theft, Injustice, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  …crack a smile or frown a frown…about the wonderful gift of creativity!

  

• Am I a Brave Artist?

  2–3 minutes

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  07/07/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, Making Money, Mania, Master, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, treasures, Uncategorized

  I must push myself to new heights. I want to. I am still th

  

• Sick, Sick, SICK OF IT…

  2–4 minutes

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  07/05/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flowers, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, gratitude, Hope, identity, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures

  …this post is winding itself around my consciousness like my fairy python-mother…

  

• Trapped in Time

  1–2 minutes

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  01/26/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures

  “Emotional Stuckness, thats a common ailment…”

  

• An Awakening

  3–5 minutes

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  01/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, faith, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Vigil

  Sleep has been a constant goal for me since I put down drugs and copious amounts of alcohol. Yet it has been the most evasive and endangered of species, teasing me with scattered glimpses of it’s eternal beauty. Oh, how I have longed for it’s soothing embrace, and so have everyone I have contact with;…

  

• Isolationism

  1–2 minutes

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  04/08/2019

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  art, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy

  At times the Artist feels so exposed…so unlike the rest…so isolated from the rest of humankind… She express this as ,”Feeling like I am painted Green”.

  

• 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…