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I've created this website as a tribute to finding my carefree art-expressions. I continually battle severe anxiety and depression and have found peace and concentration in art.

The artwork featured on the home page is of utmost importance to me. It features the works that portray how my anxiety makes me feel. Please read about it and talk about it with others. Mental Health is important. Stop the stigma.

To the one that holds me up and takes away some of my rain.	Trapped in my mind, alone. Social Anxiety	The storm in my brain. Anxiety blew through it.
Fight, Flight, or Fear This painting is a recreation of a place I endured a panic attack one evening. Traumatizing.	Angry Ear I carefully crafted this ear to depict how my heightened senses, in particular hearing, cause me pain and angst.	Smouldering Balloons This is a creation of how large social situations make me feel. The bottle shows a snake squeezing and pressing on the mouth, neck, and gut. The balloons are present as they often are symbols of happiness, but here, they are overwhelming and taking over. Too many bodies.
Broken Portrait This is an image I drew and painted with 3 different faces, fragmented. One is the obvious, outer glow, or what society wants to see. Another is the blue, closed off, utter sadness and pain I feel. Finally, the tears, bleeding ears, and scrambled hair symbolize how I feel inside, trying to get out, in some cases, these emotions do.	Late Night Leaf Drew and painted this leaf sick in the middle of the night	How time feels This is one of y favourites, it represents how time feels when I am anxious
Maple Leaves the City Trying to master drawing the maple leaf was difficult but really helped distract me from not feeling well	Vulnerable Reality This is a creation of the symptoms and feelings I get when I am anxious. It makes me vulnerable, thus the character is imaged naked. There are words surrounding, purple is the moment feelings and orange is the later positivity.	My love. The one who makes almost anything better.

JCRAW

art real-ease

Welcome!

To the one that holds me up and takes away some of my rain.

Trapped in my mind, alone. Social Anxiety

The storm in my brain. Anxiety blew through it.

Fight, Flight, or Fear This painting is a recreation of a place I endured a panic attack one evening. Traumatizing.

Angry Ear I carefully crafted this ear to depict how my heightened senses, in particular hearing, cause me pain and angst.

Smouldering Balloons This is a creation of how large social situations make me feel. The bottle shows a snake squeezing and pressing on the mouth, neck, and gut. The balloons are present as they often are symbols of happiness, but here, they are overwhelming and taking over. Too many bodies.

Late Night Leaf Drew and painted this leaf sick in the middle of the night

How time feels This is one of y favourites, it represents how time feels when I am anxious

Maple Leaves the City Trying to master drawing the maple leaf was difficult but really helped distract me from not feeling well

Vulnerable Reality This is a creation of the symptoms and feelings I get when I am anxious. It makes me vulnerable, thus the character is imaged naked. There are words surrounding, purple is the moment feelings and orange is the later positivity.

My love. The one who makes almost anything better.