I know you have probably heard the term "Creative Finance" but I have just given that term a whole new interpretation. It is probably hard for many of you to imagine that it would be possible to pull off combining both accounting and art together in the same piece but I think I've accomplished just that here in my new series that I call "Confessions of a Recovering Accountant".
These pieces are both colorful and expressive and yet at the same time simplistic. For me these 3 pieces represent the sum of my professional life after spending 30+ years in some capacity doing bookkeeping, accounting and business administration. At times, I consider with some regret those years where art was for me but a distant memory of a youthful passion. I feared that somehow that ability to be creative had totally disappeared and I would never get it back. People that I had worked with side by side for years had no idea that I had once possessed a hidden talent to draw and paint and now they express shock as they come to visit my solo shows or the galleries where my art hangs.
In less than two years, my life really has changed drastically. Rather than stressing over the accounts receivable collections report, balancing the general ledger or working to prepare my monthly board presentation, I am now always working on a current painting, planning a new painting, sitting a gallery or sketching in my journal. This series has been so freeing to me and I already have ideas to includes several more pieces. I have ideas to include my beloved Monroe 10 Key and another that I have already titled "Cooking the Books".
To check out these and my other works, please visit my website at JulieTownsendStudio.com
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