* I am absolutely in love with Euginia Pardue’s white paintings and with the story about how she got inspired to create them: “My moment of deepest inspiration came to me while lying on my back in my atelier in the Cesky Krumlov Castle in the Czech...
* Mose Tolliver was born near Montgomery, Alabama. He was one of 12 children. He married his childhood friend, Willie Mae Thomas, in the 1940s and had 13 children. During the late 1960s, after a severe injury (his legs were crushed when a load of marble shifted and...
* Augustin Lesage (1876-1954), was a French coal miner who became painter and artist through the help of what he considered to be spirit voices. When he was 35 years old, Lesage claimed he heard a voice speak to him from the darkness of the mine and tell him, “One day...
* I was so excited to discover the art of Laura Craig McNellis. Laura is Autistic like my son Diego, but she was born in 1957. Back then Autistic people with low self-regulation skills were normally institutionalized. Fortunately, her family didn’t follow that...
* Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) was a renowned Ukrainian folk art painter. I love her work so much. You can see more of it here. Photos from Wikipaintings ↓
