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Meeting your dreams

Artwork by Micsandra Vraci

I’m an self-thaught artist, I paint just because I like painting. I like any subject, but I’m most fascinated about landscape and simply the way light falls on objects. …

I like Old Masters Academy because it preserves what I think is the best knowledge in art. I think that, in order to create something that lasts for centuries, you need to learn the basics, you need to understand the laws and potential of what you can achieve.

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Oil Paintings by Patricia Melanie Beauchamp

Painting my way to recovery…

Once upon a time, a young happy athletic girl found herself with a narrow existence struggling with a chronic pain from my head to my toes throughout her life. In 2013 a diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). This autoimmune disease is a type of arthritis of the spine. No cure, but at least I had confirmation. I am still determined and optimistic.  There is always light at the end of my road, field of trees or even darkness.
 
Everyday my hope was that my words, actions and my creative self will encourage the observer to seek a moment of kindness and reflection each and every day of our lives through my art.

One day I found a surgeon to fix the mechanical defect in my back. After many years, it felt foreign yet holding a paint brush in my hand.
Because of that desire to create no matter what obstacle

My own art became my physical therapy for my hand, arm and back during that first recovery.

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