I work a day job and #PAINT with pretty much every other waking moment. I take pride in my work, both as an artist and a community visiting #nurse. I drive around, listen to my favourite music and see people in their homes, at shelters, in community health centers and help people with sticky health problems. Every day is a challenge but I gain perspective, being exposed to situations and people I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Experiences I dab into my art. I learn a lot and do a fair amount of good but also it affords me a level of freedom. I can come home and paint whatever I want, I never have to cater to anyone else’s demands, and I can work on it on my own timeline, it takes as long as it takes! It breaks up the lonely studio days also, it’s nice to feel needed. Art and nursing have a very symbiotic relationship for me. The art does pile up though, I sleep in a little room with about 50,000? dollars worth of priceless works of art because that’s how #prolific #painters sleep I guess 😴🌚 #artthoughts #dayjob #artbio #artaslife #mentalhealthday #artistsurvival #torontoartist (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3gK9IjgO-t/?igshid=4g7o4rll4zus
