Facing difficult.

I get mail from many Artists who are facing very difficult and life challenging situations and they are hurting and they ask what can they do?

Unfortunately I do not have the answers for every situation but let me answer as best I can.

I know from experience, hard experience, that no matter how difficult the situation you find yourself in, there is an answer and a way through it.

It will be a very very difficult transition at first, major change always is, but in this most difficult time we need to find a way to use our Art and take it with us on this journey.

Put these difficult experiences down on paper, record this journey in paintings, drawings and words, just let the emotions flow out, you are not painting to sell, you are painting to heal you.

Allow the creative process in you to get down all your feelings and your thoughts onto paper and canvas and into sketchbooks, fill them with your emotions and date them and also record in writing all your feelings, tell your story.

Much will seem negative at the beginning but I believe in the healing process of Art and when you get it all out into paintings and drawings and writing slowly change will take place. Make it a journey of discovery, yes a hard journey it may be, but a journey none the less and let it bring out the extraordinary strengths, courage and abilities that you have inside you.

You are a creative person and adversity does not last forever and you must outlast it by using your creative powers to record the process of your healing through this dark time.

I am not saying it is easy, but it is life changing and when you come out the other side a stronger, better person, you will have a valuable record of your courage to call upon in the future, that is your journey from dark to light in paintings, drawings and words.

You are important, you are a creative person, you will get through this, use it for your benefit, create.