Artbydanielled

My name is Danielle, I'm a 26 year old single mother & I have hereditary motor sensory neuropathy. I was in kindergarden the year I was diagnosed as well as when I first felt the spark for creating something. I started out drawing & I kept at it over the years to come but didn't feel confident enough to dive into painting until much later in life. I've struggled over the years with my physical limitations & the mental ones that came with those. There was so much I wanted from life that just felt out of reach to me. I looked around at the world that everyone else was a part of yet I felt stuck on the outside as an observer. I've had different ideas of what I've wanted to do but one after the next I'd given up on them because of who & how I was. Art is the part of me that's stuck despite it all, I was 20 when I broke through the barrier of needing to be perfect or the best & begin to enjoy the process of playing with paint. It started on cardboard with 50 cent jars of paint for something to do to keep me from going crazy & it became the first time I felt pride in something that I could do. It saved me from myself & I began to realize people respond to it. Not just recreating something I'd seen but working through an experience or feeling on a canvas, baring my soul through the abstract. Our world is full of darkness but in my acrylic works I found beauty & hope. I hope you can too.