AmberArtStudio

Visual Art – San Jose

I was born in 1990. I have had much beauty and pain in my life which has deepened the meaning of my work as well as my life. My love for art began humbly at the age of 6 when I was coloring in a coloring book, thoroughly enjoying myself. I have taken art courses in community college while in high school. I attended CSSSA with a scholarship the summer before beginning college and I was fortunate enough to go to the Idyllwild arts retreat through a scholarship prior to that. I also have enjoyed live painting and exhibitions. I took a “break” academically from art to pursue my passion for psychology although I regularly painted and integrated my art in my academics in any way I could. At one point, I considered myself split between two worlds, psychology and art. One day it dawned upon me, I must marry these two halves within myself to be truly whole. I do not need to perceive psychology and art as inherently different, rather they are one in the same. Psychology is an art, art creation can be therapeutic, and art in it of its self can inspire healing and growth in others. I am interested in mending the division of the self caused by the nature of modernity.