I would like to thank Dr. Judy Neubrander and Dr. Mason McDowell for graciously choosing to hang my art in the new WCU School of Nursing and Nurse Anesthesia Offices! I am the only artist represented in the space right now with 13 of my paintings! Congratulations to them, too, on the new space in Biltmore Park. It is Beautiful and so Advanced! It is an honor to be a small part of the environment! They are all available for purchase if one speaks to you and is asking to live in your home.  With an humble heart, I thank all who shared their appreciation for them with me. 

Enjoy life today!

The children's book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is a non-fiction reference book at my house!

Disclaimer:  This may be a bit long and stream of consciousness but its how I roll :)

"Circle of Hope"

     Today while waiting in the lobby of the orthodontist for my daughter, I picked up a mag "More" (guilty pleasure) and turned to last page,(because that is how I read all magazines back to front; they always put the best stuff in the back) and read the editors note.  It was on disorganization and how she struggled for years believing it was a flaw.  Me too!  And like me, she has come to realize that it just how we are!  There are great perks in "piles"!  When you need to locate a bill or a school note you plop on the floor and begin the search and discover that you "re-member "lost bits of your life.  A letter you forgot to send, a list of ideas, a note from a dear friend, a photo you took out to show the kids...  a treasure! Oh and the bill may or may not be there but the time has been well spent in my World!  I am now inspired and motivated to finish something, send the letter(with a new note attached about why it is six months old), purge, and summarily forced to sit still for a period of time when I am not likely to sit on my own accord.  (I have a Jeep, not a Honda, hyuck hyuck) 




     So while I completely admire my linear, compartmentalized friends...I will take my mash up life any day which can in an instant take what they would call a mistake and turn it into a new creation, full of intent!  It is how I do art...I take a feeling or an experience and turn it into an "expression" with color!  Things get done around me..as if by magic!  Like when juice is spilled on the floor...the floor gets cleaned!  I have come to depend on what you call mishaps to pull me back into the necessary and since everything seeks balance, mishaps (or are they) occur just enough to keep me grounded.  I call it "Functionally Disorganized" and it is a gorgeous way to live!  If you put everything in a drawer in my life...my creativity might just get tucked away, too.  So, "no thanks" to offers of organizing help... I am happy in my crazy, colorful life! 

My Paintings

"What I 'Do' Know"
$300

  

"Turquoise Bench"
$375(sold)

"Don't Worry, Beach Happy!"
$275 (sold)



"Fiesta"
$300

"Grey Infinity"
$175

"Leaf I & II"
$125set

"Magic of Dragonfly"
$300

"Soul Pool" ~ 30x36
$625
 

"Wall Eyed Jack
$225"

Grace..That is how my year began.  I named 2011 "Grace" because I knew inherently I was going to need plenty of its lessons.  New Year's Day brought several challenges that made me second guess my decision!!  I realized right away that I perhaps should have named my year something less assertive!  Who knew?  But grace I learned...  I read enlightening books such as "Invisible Acts of Power; Channeling Grace in Your Everyday Life" by Caroline Myss, full of powerful stories of how grace has touched the lives of people when they needed it the most.  The fact that any of us survive any given day is a supreme act of Grace!  The manner in which we handle each day is how we learn Grace.    May the Grace of God be with you always... 
Love and Grace,
Jeannine