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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Welcome to my world, the creative world where all of me, the true me, exists. I’d like to think of myself as an open and emotionally honest individual. Yet, over the course of my life, I have learned so much about the true me. There lives a frightened little girl seeking love, acceptance and comfort which for so many years I found in many other substitutes. I was able to escape and numb myself in many ways, basically to the point of death. There have times in my life when I wanted death so bad that I longed for it. I yearned for the dark escape because I couldn’t communicate who I was or what I was. Luckily today, I am able to step forward in life and see the unhappy me and move forward. The pages that lay ahead describe what I am like inside, these pages are the windows to my soul and have helped me begin the healing process that has been so necessary for me to move ahead and live. Today I have life with many challenges and instead of numbing and escaping, I conquer and achieve.
I have always enjoyed art, especially well written literature, like Dickens, Radcliffe and James, the reason why I studied writing and literature for so many years at the University of Pittsburgh. The poet always resided in me and when I had my moments of despair, my pen was there, to help guide me through the emotions. I have walked many dark paths and I truly believe that a light opened up in my life when I had the impulse to paint. I was quickly drawn to it and well I haven't stopped. Painting has been very therapeutic for me. All of the pain, sorrow, and joy I had kept inside of me over the years finally surfaced and well, see for yourself.
Enjoy my pain, sorrow and most of all my happiness.
Robin J. Bean, artist/poet