Jacie Garcia

Visual Art – Boise

I am a mother of very beautiful children, and have been a lover of art my entire life. I\'ve actually worked in finance since I was 17, and was recently placed on permanent disability due to an autoimmune arthritis in my spine. My medical issues forced me to find something to focus my energy on, and I decided to start painting and here I am!! I was a cake artist prior to this for about 4 years, but found it was too physically demanding and had to quit. I consider myself a modern, abstract painter, and when I paint, I just paint how I am feeling in that moment. Living with a chronic disease is hard, but when I have a paintbrush in my hand, all those problems seem to fade away and I feel serenity! Life is beautiful and I feel that there is art in everything.