Category: re-purposed

• 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

  

• MAKING ART to QUIET MY NERVES!!!

  2–3 minutes

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  04/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, garden Photography, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Job, Joy, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, Serenity, shih-tzus, Success, Therapy

  I don’t know about you , but I’ll starting to feel it…It’s like a weak electric current close to the floor , strengthening as each day passes… More awful news, more isolation and “distancing”-the current gets a little stronger moving to the top of my legs now. I’m getting antsy, and even though I have…

  

• 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…”

  

• Feeling at War with Myself

  1–2 minutes

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  12/28/2019

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  art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Denial, disability, Flashbacks, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, identity, insomnia, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, Therapy

  I have been languishing here, letting myself fall off the edge of sanity for a while. Is it physical?emotional?spiritual? No, not spiritual, for I feel close to my Creator. I just feel diminished, somehow, like my life’s blood has been watered down. Perhaps when the rainy season ends I will blossom again. Till then, my…

  

• 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…

  

• Spring Hearts Jello Mold!

  1–2 minutes

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  02/04/2019

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  art, Confidence!, Creativity, Flowers, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, out of the gutter, painting, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, recycled, recycled art, sobriety, Therapy, treasures

  

• We’re All Innocent by Susan T. Martin

  1–2 minutes

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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…

  

• The Beginning Murals

  1–2 minutes

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  11/24/2018

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  art, Creativity, faith, Flowers, garden art, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, pain, painting, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, recycled, sobriety, Therapy, treasures