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A Brand New Artist’s Journey: Finding Inspiration and Recovery through Art

It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a paintbrush or sketched out a picture. A long while. It feels like it’s been years, but in reality it’s only been a few months. Life has gotten in the way, as it so often does. But recently I’ve found myself itching to get back into art, to start creating again. To some extent, art has always been my therapy; when life gets tough, I can always find solace in picking up a pencil or painting on canvas. In this blog post, I want to share my journey back to art- how I’m finding inspiration and recovering from trauma through my artwork.

It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a paintbrush or sketched out a picture. A long while. It feels like it’s been years, but in reality it’s only been a few months. Life has gotten in the way, as it so often does. But recently I’ve found myself itching to get back into art, to start creating again. To some extent, art has always been my therapy; when life gets tough, I can always find solace in picking up a pencil or painting on canvas. In this blog post, I want to share my journey back to art- how I’m finding inspiration and recovering from trauma through my artwork.

Art has always been my go-to when life gets tough. It’s a form of personal therapy that helps me to process whatever is going on in my life, and I always come out feeling better on the other side. Recently, I’ve been dealing with some pretty heavy stuff from my past few years including the pandemic, a physical accident, politics, family, relationships come and gone, and all of that has taken me from my art into a very different space.

I found myself feeling creatively blocked, anxious, and just overall stuck. It felt like I had lost my mojo and I didn’t know how to get it back. But art has a way of finding you when you need it the most, and that’s exactly what happened. After some time away from art, I’m finally starting to feel inspired.

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It is time to relocate my attentions from online energies and creative spaces to those closer to my physical world; to venture out and walk out of the box of economic, health and political realities and be the master of ideas again. Even though it doesn’t seem at times like we can have an effect on the world, or our reality, in fact we are the only one who in actuality can.

It was art that got me through some of the darkest times in my life, and it is art that is helping me to find myself again. I am rediscovering my love for art and all that it entails. The process of creating art is therapeutic for me, and I am grateful to have found my way back. Thank you for stopping by.