I would love to share something with you, photos of botanical paintings, of her portraits, or something else. I just don’t know how to add an image here in Substack. It’s a new platform for me. I don’t see a ‘camera photo roll’ icon on the screen. I was drawn to your post because it showed me how people who care, as obviously you did, can help people with mental illness in its many forms find ways to heal, feel more human with other humans, create something of meaning, bring more coherence into their lives with friends and family, make new friends, and do it all through creative expression and art. Art heals, it’s that simple, Art heals, just like Love heals.
As for Nancy’s art, I must share her work and life story out into the world. I’ve been working on it for years, saving and protecting her art, long before she passed away in June, 2008. I’ve started a GoFundMe to help me raise money to save her work and share into life. She was a brilliant, well-educated and productive artist. She died totally unknown, and when I die, hopefully not soon, her work and life will be literally thrown away if it’s not preserved first. It would grieve me forever, and so I must persevere. I’d like to start a non-profit foundation to support women artists with mental illness. That would be wonderful.
You have written a tremendous story and have shown us the power we have as humans with mental health challenges to express something together, in this case as a duo, with the support of the larger community, and as you said, a project that took months. It’s impressive. I read every word, looked into everyone’s eyes and smiles, and looked at all the art work. It is so touching. I’m an artist, too, and know the trauma of family mental illness over the course of my sister Nancy Jean’s life. She developed adult onset schizophrenia at 30 and lived it through to 64. God bless her Soul. I was with her the whole way. I am in charge of her substantial body of art work, so your show did me good. Thank you. With fond appreciation for your efforts, from Arden over here in Berkeley, CA.
I would love to share something with you, photos of botanical paintings, of her portraits, or something else. I just don’t know how to add an image here in Substack. It’s a new platform for me. I don’t see a ‘camera photo roll’ icon on the screen. I was drawn to your post because it showed me how people who care, as obviously you did, can help people with mental illness in its many forms find ways to heal, feel more human with other humans, create something of meaning, bring more coherence into their lives with friends and family, make new friends, and do it all through creative expression and art. Art heals, it’s that simple, Art heals, just like Love heals.
As for Nancy’s art, I must share her work and life story out into the world. I’ve been working on it for years, saving and protecting her art, long before she passed away in June, 2008. I’ve started a GoFundMe to help me raise money to save her work and share into life. She was a brilliant, well-educated and productive artist. She died totally unknown, and when I die, hopefully not soon, her work and life will be literally thrown away if it’s not preserved first. It would grieve me forever, and so I must persevere. I’d like to start a non-profit foundation to support women artists with mental illness. That would be wonderful.
You have written a tremendous story and have shown us the power we have as humans with mental health challenges to express something together, in this case as a duo, with the support of the larger community, and as you said, a project that took months. It’s impressive. I read every word, looked into everyone’s eyes and smiles, and looked at all the art work. It is so touching. I’m an artist, too, and know the trauma of family mental illness over the course of my sister Nancy Jean’s life. She developed adult onset schizophrenia at 30 and lived it through to 64. God bless her Soul. I was with her the whole way. I am in charge of her substantial body of art work, so your show did me good. Thank you. With fond appreciation for your efforts, from Arden over here in Berkeley, CA.