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'When Life Goes To Sh*t Make Art!' (2024) Painting by Annette Aspen
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 36in, Width 36in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $5,000 Expressionism Abstract
I thought that my life had changed with the introduction of a new drug last year, everything was going so well. But it seems that my body has got used to it and decided that it no longer has any therapeutic effect. It has taken me 3 months to admit it, but I'm worse than I was and can't take the side effects and the seizures. So during a calm moment I spilled my emotions onto this canvas.
An artist friend called it 'pain art' they weren't being unkind, maybe that's how it's seen by a lot of people!? For me is cathartic.
My own blend of colours on a big canvas.
Acrylic on deep-edged canvas 36" x 36"
unframed and ready to hang, signed on the reverse and accompanied with a certificate of authenticity.
20% will be donated to The National Brain Appeal to help raise funds for research into epilepsy and other neurological conditions.
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Neurodivergent ArtAbstractArtist With EpilepsyDisabled ArtistContemporary Art
Annette Aspen is a self-taught mixed media artist, epilepsy advocate, retired BBC World Service studio manager, wife and mother living and painting in Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent.
Annette's practice is strongly linked to her neurological condition, as she narrates her emotional rollercoaster through colour and texture onto canvases of varying sizes. Abstract painting allows her the freedom to express herself honestly and openly, with no judgement. Annette explains that hand tremors and double vision, can sometimes enhance the piece and you'd never know, unlike if she were attempting to draw still life!
Annette says that she is certain her 'broken brain', as she calls it, directly affects how she paints, and that she can tell which of her paintings were created before, after and even during a seizure. In her work Annette is trying to break out of the stereotype that is attached to this hidden illness, yet embracing the fact that it’s because of her epilepsy that she discovered art therapy and changed her way of life.
Annette's paintings are colourful journeys full of emotion, inspiration and honesty. She invites the viewer to share in a release of any negativity, just as each painting afforded her in their creation. Her art doesn't represent angst and pain, but the joy and optimism of rising above physical challenges and overcoming difficulties by helping others.
Her works have caught the eye of collectors from Aberdeen to Totnes, and have regularly appeared on beer cans at a microbrewery in Pennsylvania since 2021.
Painting what affects her visually and emotionally Annette hopes that she might inspire others who are living with a disability and raise some awareness of her own condition. She donates 20% of all her artwork sales to The National Brain Appeal to go towards epilepsy research, and would like you to know that, by supporting her, you are helping to make a difference.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1968
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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