I painted this after reading an inspiring post from a friend of mine who is a survivor of domestic violence. I wanted to show that even though the flower is obviously damaged and missing petals, it’s still very strong and beautiful and that it survived.

When I moved from South Carolina to the mountains of Utah, I just couldn’t get over how beautiful the mountains were. This is my interpretation of the mountains that are outside the windows of my house and my owed to Utah.

👋 my future community peers! I will start! I’m originally from Charleston, SC but am currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. I recently discovered painting and collage and mixed medium art. I enjoy mixing collage and abstract and a touch of realism and trying to blend them together. I hope to build a large community of positive supportive artists so people feel that they’re seen, and that they have someone they can connect to outside of their everyday circle. I hope that by pushing respectful, critique and discussion it will help people see the world from a different light becoming inspired and create something beautiful. I hope to lead art therapy classes to teach people how they can use art in many different ways to express their feelings and work through their pain instead of holding it inside and how by using art you can take something that is extremely painful and transform it into something beautiful. My sprinkles is that I am a mother for little girls and I never knew what I wanted to be growing up so anything that caught my interest I have been blessed that I could pursue. And because of that, I have a very eclectic repertoire of knowledge and skills that I love to share and use those talents to bring people joy. I’m a medical massage therapist I enjoy that because I like to help people get out of pain. I am a nutritional chef and a baker, and I love nothing more than to cook a large dinner and take it over to my elderly neighbors to share. I love connecting with people through food. I teach cooking classes, not only to adults, but I have written and developed a homeschool cooking curriculum. And I am immensely pale and do everything I can to stay out of direct sunlight. My husband calls me his ginger ghoul, because if I go in the sunlight, I burst into flames. And I’m called Miss Jolly because a coworker of mine could never remember my name so that is what she called me because she said I was the happiest person she had ever met. I can’t wait to read everyone’s introductions and get to know people and hear other people‘s perspective on my art so I can grow and develop another perspective and become a better artist!