Now you see me
Artworks by Members of Expressive Arts Without Borders Group
Coming home from kindergarten with my rain boots on backwards.
It happens all the time.
Heads down, the kids are laughing.
Me, with a sad face.
My mom said, “Don’t worry; it’s cute.”
But I think she was laughing, too.
Broken body of mine. I move,
No longer imprisoned,
she moves, me,
I am grateful,
liberated.
About the Contributing Artists
Helen Lee is an artist, musician, Life Coach and Expressive Arts Facilitator. Helen Lee's abstract artworks and profound connection to music create a unique sensory experience. As a classically trained pianist, she integrates her musical expertise into her visual art, bringing rhythmic energy and melodic fluidity to her work. Helen focuses on transforming and empowering people from all walks of life through sounds, images, and coaching.
Judy Nemer Sklar is an artist, published writer, educator, and developer of a workshop program entitled Creative Life Workshops, taught in Southern California. She has a BA in art and an MA in Humanities with a speciality on the creative track in visual arts and is currently enrolled for a second MA in Expressive Arts Therapy. Her goal is to bring expressive arts into the lives of her students and to remind them to embrace their creative nature because science tells us that art heals.
Lori Sylvester graduated with a Master’s Degree in Art Education in 1986. Since then, her work has been exhibited in regional, national and international shows including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio; Gallery Elena, Taos, New Mexico, as well as several juried shows held within the Capital District of New York State and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Originally from Europe, Marie Deschamps (she/her) (Maya del Campo) is an art psychotherapist, researcher, and artist. A doctoral candidate at Lesley University, she studies art-based symptom self-disclosure using technology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She teaches at Instituto Mexicano de Psicoterapia de Arte (Mexico) and is a visiting scholar at the New School, NY.
Salima Andany is a Trauma Therapist and Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapist. Her struggles with speech, communication & emotional regulation after a TBI led her too expressive arts to manage anxiety, and chronic pain, build resilience & cope with life’s challenges. She has come to understand that comparison is the thief of Joy. Her passion for creativity and psychology motivates her to support others in learning these skills on their transformative journey.
I receive inspiration...of colours, patterns, lines broken...and in flow, mediums blended and blended togetherness of hands reaching outwards inwards.