Category: Mood Swings

• “Party Girl”

  1–2 minutes

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  09/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, gratitude, Hope, identity, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  

• All Writey Now

  1–2 minutes

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  09/02/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Job, learning, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, voyages

  …seems to be less like a monkey…more like a huge Brahma that has lain down, groaning and farting…

• The Door is Wide Open

  1–2 minutes

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  08/26/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings

  There are ideas percolating just beneath the surface of my consciousness. They are not fully fleshed out but the juices are flowing and I feel “on the verge” of a breakout work. What is a ‘breakout work’ you ask? Well, I’m asking too, and I believe there is a new direction coming. I have been…

  

• “INSIDE VOICE” a New Series of Works

  3–5 minutes

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  08/01/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, 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 art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, Uncategorized

  “…look into this inner world and I promise I will use my “INSIDE VOICE”.

  

• The Duality of My Artistic Self

  3–5 minutes

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  11/13/2019

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  Depicting my own image has been a starting point my work from the beginning. As a child my drawings were always of female faces, although I never consciously realized these were reflections of me. Even then, in my earliest work, the duality of my nature is blatantly apparent. .  The faces I drew were always…

  

• Another Facet

  1–2 minutes

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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

  1–2 minutes

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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…