Artists Who Inspire Us!
You may be familiar to our extensive series on this website titled “World Changers”, which includes in-depth inspirational interviews and articles about extraordinary individuals and organizations that are actively contributing to making a positive difference through their art. If you ever need to restore your faith in humanity visit that series that contains more than 50 articles.
This article features multi-talented artists who go above and beyond their studios to help others. It is important to them to help bring positive change to the world and share the healing modalities they have learned throughout their lives.
May this article inspire you!
It includes Nicole Cromwell, Rajul Shah, Karen Johnston and Carole Claude T.
Nicole Cromwell
Nicole Cromwell creates transcendent paintings that portray luminous, and aspirational interpretations of the natural world. The magnificent, miraculous beauty of our universe permeates throughout her portfolio. She composes meditative visual environments that invite us into blissful realms of serenity and quietude.
Having had a professional background as a critical care nurse she realized the importance of sharing her knowledge, compassion and artistic skills with other nurses. She offers a free course “Brave Beginner Art Course: How to Survive and Thrive Through Creativity”, designed “to equip nurses with creative tools and techniques for effective stress management and emotional resilience, fostering a healthier work-life balance through mindful and therapeutic practices.”
Nicole’s course “aims to enhance job satisfaction by leveraging nurses’ existing strengths and skills, rekindling a sense of joy and fulfillment in their professional and personal lives. It addresses and mitigates the effects of burnout and compassion fatigue through targeted creative activities, promoting overall well-being and mental health.”
She adds, “Additionally, the course educates nurses on the health benefits of art and how creative expression positively affects the brain, reinforcing the importance of integrating art into daily life for overall mental and emotional well-being.”
Read an Art Review about Art by Nicole Cromwell
Rajul Shah
Rajul crates healing art using Kintsugi and Chakra elements. She is also the co-founder pf Purple Octopus Art, LLC™. Its mission: To provide a platform for art and expressive writing that address human and environmental ailments. Art works and writing are published online and in books to offer inspiration to sufferers/families/caregivers. The organization also published a book “The Cancer Feminine, Art, Inspiration and Truth”.
“The Cancer Feminine” exhibitions involve artist-patients, family members or caregivers involved with female cancers. Portions of profits are donated to charities specific to each ailment.
Rajul explains, “This initiative encapsulates everything I love across my first 20-year career in healthcare; and my second career as an artist.”
Read an Art Review about Art by Rajul Shah
View Rajul’s Art in our Art Gallery
Karen Johnston
Having a deep sensitivity to the emotional world, Karen Johnston’s artwork not only recognizes and honors vulnerability, it also delights in the power of resilience. With a style that both ponders and celebrates life, she paints with “a desire to uplift the spirit and stimulate growth”.
One of her passions is artistic collaboration and projects that integrate the arts with healthcare and wholeness. She leads a local support community for those with cancer, life-changing illness and caregivers that she founded in 2011.
View Karen’s Art on Our Special Friends Page.
Read Karen Johnston Artist and Founder of The H.O.P.E. Ministry
Carole Claude T.
Carole creates mixed media drawings that are healing narratives. They enlighten us and ignite our sense of childlike wonder and curiosity about the universe, spirituality, human experience, and nature. Her original drawings are created with colored pencils, pastels, and pen. She also offers high resolution, digital format reproductions. All sales from those prints go to charity.
She also believes in helping others heal through art. She explains, “Some three years ago, I began playing with pencils in a bid to encourage my 87-year-old mother to engage with colouring, despite a deepening Alzheimer’s-related decline in spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination. After she passed, I formed the ‘Hands on Pencils’ group for the residents at her Aged Care facility. My intention was to do for them — and with them — what my little mother and I had done together.”
Read an Art Review about Art by Carole Claude T.
Lynda Goldman Founder of Art For A Cause
Lynda’s uplifting painting “Joyful Heart” was selected for “The Healing Power of Color” 2023 exhibition. When she submitted her entries she wrote “My life as an artist is about sparking joy with color. I paint abstracted flowers because nature provides a horticultural ice cream parlor of saturated colors. I use layers of luminous color, with bold and delicate lines and shapes to portray the essence of flowers. I use acrylics, often adding oil sticks and inks. Big and small brushes, and even twigs from my garden are used to express exuberance and positivity in the delicate dance of colors on canvas.”
Lynda is founder of Art for a Cause and strives “to bring joy and beauty to the world.” She shares, “I donate a portion of my art sales from every original painting to causes that support our planet, and women and children in need.” She adds, “From a recent art show, I donated money to a women’s shelter, and several environmental and social justice causes. I love to support moms who can then support their daughters.” Some of the organizations Lynda has aided through sales of her art include: Kiva, which gives micro-loans to new entrepreneurs and students around the world; Habitat for Humanity; Children’s Health Defense; David Suzuki Foundation, EcoJustice, Environmental Defense; and Mercy for Animals; and more.
Lynda won the People’s Choice Award in the Artists in Montreal Valentine’s Show. She has sold her paintings across Canada and the U.S.. She invites you to buy her art for your home or office and “make the world a little better, just as my mother always taught me.”
Visit Lynda Goldman’s website: lyndagoldmanfineart.com
Learn more about Art For A Cause: lyndagoldmanfineart.com/art-for-a-cause-2
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