Claystone Clinic is featuring fourteen of my original paintings entitled Healing Reflections in Watercolor. While hanging the artwork, the receptionist said, “Your paintings have a real presence about them.” The exhibition includes 2011 ArtPrize paintings and three new works.
As a 10-year-old, I started taking art lessons at the Old World Art Gallery at the mall. Although adults surrounded me, I wasn’t intimidated, and the teacher took a sincere interest in my artwork.
For twenty years, I have sold my artwork on a commission basis and taught some children’s art lessons in my basement. Currently, eleven Children’s Hospitals from Philadelphia to San Diego showcase my artwork.
In 2005 while briefly showing my portfolio to New York artist Makoto Fujimura, he said, “Your paintings speak of healing.” In that moment, he named my calling: to encourage the hurting and to offer hope.
DATES
March 23 through May 17, 2013
LOCATION
Claystone Clinical
3330 Claystone SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan
