As a mental health consumer, we have this twisted desire to constantly self-analyze, plus some of us are tragically blessed with a creative mind. Thus, in order to have a healthy mechanism for these delusional outputs, I have decided to post random thoughts that seem to validate why I am an artist. If you have any to share, reply via twitter @jpeachygallery.com
Reason 42: Time is an abstract concept, hours and days are sometimes unrecognizable
Reason 27: You love watching Paint Dry!
Reason 34: You think white dudes with an Afro and Beard are either named Bob or Ross
Reason 111: Someone told me I couldn’t. – Nelly Mills
Reason 47: Things an Artist can say when angry at someone: “Don’t make me mad, or I’ll paint you right in the face”
Reason 53: Because you tweet at this ungodly hour, fully knowing your art friends will respond.
I am a contemporary outsider artist that believes in the healing properties of the natural environment. I paint landscapes in abstract as an expression of my connection with nature and its ability to provide me peaceful inspiration. As organisms on this earth I believe we are interconnected with nature and highly interdependent.
But as the psycho-social environment we live in today gets ever increasingly complex its effects on us are becoming more pervasive, corroding and sophisticated. However the energy, peace and serenity of our natural surroundings can provide a way of grounding our senses and healing our minds. I try to capture the interrelationship between my mind and nature as I see and feel it; it’s an expression of my soul captured on a physical medium and in a point in time. Going through the process in itself contributes to balance.
Driven by my own lived experience, I am a self proclaimed arts-based advocate for mental health and strive to demystify and eliminate stigma around these issues. My initiatives in this regard include being the Vancouver Caucus leader for the Artist Alliance for Mental Health, a collective member (2010) of the artist-run Gallery Gachet in Vancouver and the Producer and Host of Sound Therapy Radio a peer oriented mental wellness show on CJSF 90.1 FM. I have a true belief in human potential and in the statement; ‘art is a means for survival’.
Reason 111: Someone told me I couldn’t.
a great reason!
Read your message on facebook. As a fellow artist I will do what I can to be involved.