Heidi was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and now lives with an ileostomy. If you check out her website, she has lots of great artwork posted that reflects her view of living with illness. Much of her artwork is ostomy-related, from paintings to pictures to sculpture. She has a very optimistic and encouraging view of life, showing that an ostomy doesn’t have to keep you from pursuing your dreams.
I always appreciate those who seek creative means to express what it means to live with inflammatory bowel disease. Recently I came across one such creative individual, Becki from the United Kingdom. In these two videos she performs two original poems she has written, one about Crohn’s disease and one about irritable bowel syndrome.
For those of you who have enjoyed my paintings, I have a real treat for you–Series II of the Yes Paintings. I’ve spent months working on these and feel like I really have a solid collection here, much better than the first. I express a lot of themes with these paintings so take some time and think about them.
If you’d like to help support this site most of the new paintings are available for sale, prices ranging from $45-99. Just drop me a line and any of these paintings can be yours!
The artwork section of this website has also expanded in another way. One new page you see is the Submit Your Artwork page. The title says it all. If you have any artwork at all that deals with you moving on from your ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, send me the images and I’ll post them on this site. I want to see your artwork now, and I know others want to see it as well. If you don’t have any artwork, then get to work and make something for us!
Check out this music video about struggling with Crohn’s and colitis recently posted by Lauren Zoe Bruno. Lauren is a singer/songwriter who was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 11. Now she is using her talents to raise awareness of inflammatory bowel diseases, showing once again that we can all use our talents to do something to fight against these diseases.
One of the guitarists in this video is Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, who also suffers with inflammatory bowel disease.
I have a new page for everybody, The Yes Paintings. This is a series of artwork I created to help me and others understand our colitis better. Hopefully you find some meaning in it. Let me know what you think about it.
