The grumpy companion of 'Self Portrait With Teeth', 'Self Portrait With Fever' was also painted while I was at Yale University's Summer School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. The program there was made up of third year painting students from all over North America, and you have never seen such a bunch of eager-beaver art students. So when I ended up getting sick half way through the program, there was no way I was going to get left in their dust, even if that meant painting and hallucinating at the same time. (That thing with the cluster of fruit attached like a helium balloon to your ear -- does that ever happen to you? No? Oh. Never mind.)
~ René Joshi Sims
René's zig-zaggy art journey: a three year crash course in love, painting, and D.I.Y. at Rosebud, Alberta; Yale University's Summer School of Art in Norfolk; four hothouse years at Alberta College of Art and Design; a year-long mentorship with Canadian painter Eleanor Bond, and another year working on Chautauqua Stars for a Northern City, a public commission for the E. A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts. The journey came to a juddering halt when René's son was diagnosed with autism. She recently returned to the studio after a six year absence, and is working on a show about healing, loss, and love that glows just hot enough to see by. She lives with her family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and blogs in happy obscurity at fruityfantastica.
All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!
Self-portrait with fever 2'x 2' acrylic, oil stick and oil on plywood (unframed) by René Joshi Sims (origin: Saskatchewan, Canada)
Starting bid: $80.00