Welcome to the Online Gallery

Artists Recovering from Stroke

Your submissions are most welcome by email to jokeeffe@tassie.net.au. If submitting to the online gallery, you will be required to submit images of your artwork, regardless of medium. I do ask that you submit an artist statement, related to your rehabilitation process and any comments on your stroke in relation to your artwork. Your statements may remain anonymous if you wish.

Photographer - Rick Orr

View his work at

http://www.afom.com/index.htm

Feature Artist - Chris Nix

Chris Nix, born July 14th, 1939, has always had a creative mind and a giving heart. However on February 15, 1990 she had a brain aneurism which caused a series of massive strokes on both sides. After 52 days in intensive care on the dangerously critical list, 4.5 months in a coma and 10 months of hospital care and rehabilitation, Chris went home. Through the physical and emotional adjustments Chris and her family incurred, she remained a sweet, sweet spirited wife, mother, sister, daughter, and friend. She can only hold the brush placed in her hand with her thumb and pointing finger and does not have great mobile dexterity.

Chris Nix c/o Beth Russell P.O.Box 256 Helena, Alabama 35080 email BZR10@aol.com

Jon Sarkin - Feature Artist

Despite his artistic success since his trauma, Jon Sarkin says, "I would give anything in the world not to have had a head stroke. But I did. And as my Mom says, 'When your life gives you a lemon, you make lemonade.' You have to use that. Promise?"

View Jon Sarkin's Website

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