Judy Joy Jones
'My purpose for being alive is to paint and sculpt. My life did not begin until I lay at death's door. A life and death experience at the age of thirty-three left me confined to a bed in the isolation ward of a hospital. While the drugs to keep me alive poured into my veins, the colors began to pour forth from my soul onto the paper using a children's box of watercolors. The moment the colors touched the paper from my hands I knew my only purpose for being alive was to paint. With each stroke of the paintbrush my body, mind and spirit began to...more
