Available Paintings

Social Media = S & M without a safe word. A hooded head with devils horns, a blindfold & a ball gag. — **S+M**
90cm x 60cm Acrylic on canvas
$865

Colourful figure flying through the sky with a banner that says Fuck Off on it. — **Flying Fuck**
30cm x 120cm Acrylic on canvas
$565

Figure standing in a suit of armour with one are coming out of it and angelic figures surrounding it — **Never Let Them Steal Your Sparkle**
130cm x 180cm Acrylic on canvas
$3,625

Words surrounding a figure from the waist up hugging itself — **From the Heart**
100cm x 100cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,600

Dark figures cirlcle a colourful figure. Dark energy surrounds everything with light in the center. — **Disconnected**
100cm x 100cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,600

Large group of figures stand together with colourful splashed and dripped paint everywhere. — **We are One**
180cm x 150cm Acrylic on canvas
$4,265

A couple kiss with splashed and dripped paint surrounding them. — **The Kiss**
100cm x 100cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,600

One figure hugging from behind another figure with paint splattered and dripped around them. — **Safe in Your Arms**
100cm x 100cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,600

Acrylic painting 150 x 75cm called Tangled. 2 figures spooning arms & legs entwined. — **Tangled**
150cm x 75cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,775

Acrylic painting 100 x 80cm called I've Got You. 2 figures, 1 leaning into the arms of the other. — **I've Got You**
100cm x 80cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,245

An acrylic painting 100cm x 80cm called Enveloped. There are two figures wrapped in an embrace. — **Enveloped**
100cm x 80cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,245

Dark boxes compartmentalize emotions symbolizing death. — **Death**
100cm x 100cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,600

Colourful lines and shapes are slashed with a wound. — **Wounded**
100cm x 80cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,245

2 canvases stacked vertically with colourful shapes, different, but joined. — **Marriage**
2 x 100cm x 80cm Acrylic on canvas
$2,485

2 canvas staked horizontally, different, but the same and joined. Called Mother and child — Mother & Child
2 x 60cm x 80cm Acrylic on canvas
$1,535

Before

In December 2023 my husband and I sold our restaurant business. We had been working for 7 years straight with only 8 days off a year, and finally, finally all that hard work had paid off and we could retire.

We packed our bags and headed to Ecuador, a country we had been researching for 2 years, knowing that this was to be the place where we would start our retirement adventure.

What fun we had! For three months we walked the city, hiked the mountains and stuffed ourselves with all the culinary delights of our new life. It was pure heaven.

During

Then unexpectedly my husband had back pain. To be fair, this was nothing new. he had experienced this before. The pain migrated to his stomach. Concerning, but still, we were not overly nervous.

Suddenly he couldn't swallow...... not tiny bites, or even sips of water.

And so began the tests, the endoscopy, blood work, a CT scan, the works. And the results came back: pancreatic cancer stage 4, 4-6 weeks left to live.

Our world shattered.

3 and a 1/2 weeks later he was gone.

After

A week after he passed, pulled out of my grief, my neighbour, a massage therapist, dragged me over for a session. "You need a little love." She said.

And so I went. I put my face in the hole and for a solid 90 minutes I cried and sobbed and dripped snot onto the floor as she massaged my pain away and made me feel human again.

But it was what she said at the end of my session that really hit home. She said, "Alison don't you see. Your husband's death was a wake up call. A lesson. There is no time to waste. You have a home in a beautiful new country. You are retired. You have all the time in the world to do what you love to do,. To paint. Don't you see, you get to LIVE. So go do it! "

Today I am back in Ecuador reconnecting with my heart. My days are spent loving and rediscovering who I am, who I was, and who I want to be.

What have I learned?

She was right. I have been given a gift.

I am alive.

And what a magical thing that is to be!

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