Author: TJFord Art

I am an empath who writes and creates art derived from emotion intuitively connected to the Spirit realm. I mostly create with water mediums, yet I often combine many mediums including graphite, colored pencil, inks, paint pens, markers, collage, and most recently resin. I enjoy incorporating organic and inorganic material to create layered and complex designs that resonate with the multi-dimensionality of humans and what Spirit brings through while creating.

Creating, almost daily

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All originals that I’ve completed the last several weeks.  I’m working on completing 100  pieces of original work, and am slowly getting there.  Face and flower studies in various mediums, although these are all acrylic, either on stretched canvas or canvas board in varying sizes.  Thrilled to be creating again!

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What’s your ‘hand’ story?

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If eyes are said to be the ‘window to the soul,’ hands must be ‘footprint of our heart.’ Hands are really quite amazing.  A baby’s hands are soft and innocent, a child’s hands are inquisitive and covered in experiments, a teenager’s hands are curious and skid-dish at the same time, a mother’s hands are strong […]

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Finding Means Seeing

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I have no shortage of passion when it comes to being creative, it changes my demeanor and fills me with such joy sometimes I think I may explode!  It literally needs to get out onto paper.  There is an age old saying though, that resonates with me about being an artist, and it has stayed with me forever…”starving artists get paid after they are dead.”  GULP!  How in the world can I take the single most fulfilling gift that I have and make money before I’m dead!?!? 

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Spirituality-Religion or Faith

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I watched my father’s quiet, yet steady faith while my mother struggled with practicing a religion versus having faith and a spiritual relationship with God.  For me, memorization and repetition ingrained the practice of this ‘religion’ into my very being as I grew up. 

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