I have always loved and excelled at art but it took a right hemiparesis stroke and a right eye stroke and severe ulnar neuropathy for me to realise I have to use my arms and hand every day for therapy otherwise I will lose the complete use of them. I have found that colour is very therapeutic, it stimulates and motivates me throughout the day. For this reason, I have set up my own business to share my love of colour and resin work.
I credit this learned technique of Kathleen Miller from the USA and SheleeArt teachings. Stain glass windows is a technique on any surface using the drizzle, swipe, wreck, spin technique on a pillow of white or black paint. Mixing pearl and acrylic or metallic pigments used to colour polyurethane pouring on the pillow of paint allowing to dry and then applying a clear resin topcoat.
What’s the first thing you want to do when you receive incredible news? You reach out to someone who’s important to you to share. What do you do when something terrible happens? Hopefully, you reach out to a loved one for support. We rely on the people around us for emotional support during good and bad times. As much as this need for connection is ingrained in us, it also goes the other way.
This is the essence of giving back to the community – supporting others in the ups and downs of life just as they support you.
Why is it important to give back to the community? Because the secret to living is giving. True fulfilment doesn’t lie in material possessions, following a certain blueprint for your life or even in finding a passionate relationship. Those things are all parts of achieving a good life. But real meaning in life never comes from what you get, it comes from what you give.
