Thank you for this. When my abilities are reduced due to pain or mental health anguish, I resort to the pen on paper. It's my healing. Letting the lines just move across the page. It is my safe place. When I think of artists with illness, there are so many. Maude Lewis is one! I realize my knowledge of women's art to be much less than men. Perhaps we will find a collection one day of women living with chronic illness, who found art as their balm and pursued it beyond all the odds.
Thanks for reminding me of Maud Lewis! I watched the movie about her a while ago, it was so good. I’m trying very hard to increase my knowledge of women artists, both in contemporary arts & especially in art history. It’s terrible that the first names that usually pop into my head are male artists! Urgh, need to do better.
Love it the charcoal as an extension of your finger
That’s the aim, right? That our tools become part of us
Thank you for this. When my abilities are reduced due to pain or mental health anguish, I resort to the pen on paper. It's my healing. Letting the lines just move across the page. It is my safe place. When I think of artists with illness, there are so many. Maude Lewis is one! I realize my knowledge of women's art to be much less than men. Perhaps we will find a collection one day of women living with chronic illness, who found art as their balm and pursued it beyond all the odds.
Thanks for reminding me of Maud Lewis! I watched the movie about her a while ago, it was so good. I’m trying very hard to increase my knowledge of women artists, both in contemporary arts & especially in art history. It’s terrible that the first names that usually pop into my head are male artists! Urgh, need to do better.