A Time to Heal

Gladys Jimenez, Paint Alchemy Featured Artist



Dear Friends,

This month has been a slow month in all areas of my life. I'm focusing on healing physically and enjoying every thing I do on a day to day basic.  Since April 9, 2015 I have completely changed my diet. Let go of sugar, gluten, flour, processed foods, soy, corn, and cow dairy. Next month it will be a year since I gave all meat and poultry.  

I am learning to shop for healthy vegetables and trying new ones, like okra. Learning to cook them and juicing every day is a new habit for me and my body is loving it. One of the benefits of giving up sugar is that all food taste so much better. 

I feel this is a time to re-evaluate my life and what is ahead.  I stopped teaching for now. I miss teaching art after so many years but I need to take care of myself right now and I need to simplify my life and limit the amount of stress as much as I can.

I had a wonderful time at the opening reception of Paint Alchemy last month. So grateful for all the people who showed up to help me set up, those who came to the reception and those who purchased art. I was blessed to have such a wonderful time with friends and fans of my work. Check out the video I made of the reception.

I began the month creating small abstract paintings. It has been a while since I did new ones, so it was fun to warm up with abstract work.  Then I began a realistic painting last week. It's been 6 months since my last realistic painting since I was focusing on my featured artist show. It feels great to do what I love and will focus on realistic works for the next 6 months.

The opening reception at the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery where two of my paintings were on display was also fun. You can still view the show Contemporary Realism until June 5th.

This is for now.

Love,
Glad

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