April 2024, I mortgaged a fix-up house and even though the roof doesn't look that bad, IT DOES need to be replaced. So, unable to finance it, I packed 3/4 of my house and prepared to sell and move again but now I've applied for a partial loan/grant and I'm waiting for a final decision to see what the next step brings me. I still may have to move again. I have reduced the prices of all of my paintings, mostly 50% lower (except for my 2 or 3 of my best paintings) and I don't have much chance of any sales because I don't have a mobile phone or ANY social media AND NO ART GALLERY. It's a bummer but that's life.

I've been painting abstractly for over 55 years and actually began it in grade school. My grade school art teacher, Mrs. Reynolds, used to push her grocery cart full of art supplies to each of our homerooms and one day she informed me: "No Jerri, the sky is always blue and grass is always green" after a tempera paint project. After four years of private, group art lessons while I was married in the 70's, my genius art teacher taught us to SEE "space behind patterns" OR "space through patterns" which broke my flat space style I began at sixteen. I've developed my personal style ever since. Had I not been a self-employed house painter for 31 years in Colorado AND if I'd have been a social media star, perhaps I'd be selling. But, nope . . .

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