Stephanie Chisholm
International Award Winning Artist
Stephanie Chisholm
International Award Winning Artist
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Past Exhibitions:
International NY ARTEXPO at the Javitis Center
The New York City Heath and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection
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The New York Public Library - Permanent Print Collection, NYC
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Chiz
What is Chiz? Or what is a Chiz?
Chiz is my name. Like all names it was given to me. It is not what marks my birth certificate, not the name chosen by my mother and father. The name they gave their first born child is Stephanie Chisholm.
Chiz is the name given to me later in life by of all people my friends. It makes me smile just to think about it. The name has stuck to me like gum in my hair for years. I love it!!! The name Chiz morphs at times like most things do over time into derivates of the Chiz base, to Chiztina, Chiztallena and on and on. But it always comes back to Chiz.
The Chizzy Mind
Let's look into the Chizzy Mind. The Artist's Mind.
I paint from my heart. Which is a happy heart & I strive to infuse my creative passion into all of my art and my portraits so that it flows like electricity through the eyes of the subject on the canvas and into eyes of the viewer.
I have beautiful eyes, which means I can find the beauty in the subjects I use in my paintings and I glorify that beauty. This makes me so happy!
YaY!!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my eyes focus on what is beautiful and precious about you.
I have created art since the time my mother put a crayon into my hand as a child. Before I could read. I was hooked that very first time with just that crayon and a coloring book.
I went through many trials and journeys to find my true love again. I frolicked through life creating art all through my elementary years dancing on the waves of projects and praise. I needed to create art like I needed to breath air and I didn't even know how deep that need was until it was gone.
I battled the doubts of my father that feared the practicality of an art career for his daughter. So started my fall away from light and journey into practicality.
I gave into that pressure of practicality and I had for a time forsaken my true love. I thought my art was too much fun, too easy to go on forever frolicking and playing and creating art for the rest of my life. I had to grow up, be a woman, take on the real responsibilities of adult life & do the hard things that adults do.
So I did those hard things, I graduated from an Ivy League University, Cornell University, worked in the ER. In the most stressful level one trauma center in the world at Bellevue Medical Center in New York City where someone was shot in the ER on my first day on the job. I worked gathering National News for CBS News & finally did a tour in the guerilla killing fields of New York Independent Film Making as a line producer.
I worked harder and harder. So that I didn't have time to think about my need for the air, slowly dying under the break neck pace of the rat race towards something I never wanted. Just because I could do all of those things didn't mean I had to do them.
After the end of principle photography of the Indie Film. I crashed mentally and I realized I was doing this not for me but, I did all of that to prove something.
I thank God for all of my experiences because it taught me that I shouldn't forsake the gift he gave me at birth.
I had the answer to my life's purpose in my baby hands with that first crayon my mother gave me.
I ran, ran, ran around the world, running from the very thing that I needed to live. Running from the gift that God gave me that truly made me special.
Thank God I took time to breath again. I turned around and surrendered myself back to the thing that was always with me patiently waiting for me to return. So that I could finally be free!
Free!!!!
Free to go on forever frolicking, playing and being happy for the rest of my life & my art will live past me and touch future generations.
Passion
My art is my passion, my air, my life's blood beating through the chambers of my heart and I thank God everyday for giving me this gift.
I feel true lasting art is inhabited with some of the soul of the artist that is why when you see a work of art that touches you years or centuries after it's creation it speaks to your soul in a language that has no words.
It's power can not be measured in words.
I invite you to feel the passion in my art and own a piece of that joy.
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