RIC CHEDESTER 4 WATERCOLORS
This is a place where you can go to get into some (what I think) are pretty good works of art.
I've been painting for about 8 years or so. I started my career in the arts when I got hit by the Big C. Hodgkins Lymphoma found me sleeping on the "Job of Life". I needed a way to get out of my head and the thoughts that went through it or succumb to the Bug. I knew that I didn't want to Die quite yet, (although one would think so by the way I treated my body and my self).
From the time I was about 12 years old I started doing my research with alcohol and drugs. From the late 60's when I used hallucinogen's and slammed speed, to the Late 70's when I started my bartending career, I was at the edge of "Too Much and Too Many"...
I got married in 1981. Six years later and a lot more of my continuous research in alcohol and drugs, my wife and I decided to have a child. Thank God for the perfect daughter that was given to us. From San Diego,Ca. to Salem,Or. to Portland,Or. and back down to San Diego,Ca. The journey was full of "Too Much and Too Many"...
I sometimes wonder how I held things together in my life. Or did I? This, I'm sure now was a very skewed point of view on how well I was keeping it together.
It was in 1995 I was visited by my adversary the Big C. I can see now how much my wife took care of things in our household, and me. We might even say that she was the mother of two, our daughter Clare and myself. Then after getting through the chemo, radiation and ultimately the Cancer, I found myself 11 years later very deep in the use of my alcohol, and the narcotics prescribed to me for the pain.
After two hip replacements, a heart ablation and several bouts with pneumonia, I thought I was getting well.
Then another crisis in my life. My wife after 26 years of marriage left me. Just "Too Much and Too Many"... It was finale, I knew what I was needing to do. So I went forward with my plans to get myself into Detox and Rehab.
I guess sometimes a person just needs a small push in the right direction, or to hit the bottom.
Today finds me living without my wife Robin. My daughter Clare has finished her 3rd yr. as a "Double Major" in college. I'm now living in Bend, Oregon. I'll have to say that for the past year, no chemicals. I haven't picked up any of my brushes enough either, but I am starting to paint again now that I have a fresh set of eyes to see clearer through and a mind that rolls constantly with images that I want to put down on paper.
So now you have it. A piece of my thoughts and the journey with me to where I am today...
After 40 yrs. of research, I think I've finnally arrived!
My painting continues and so does my Life!
RIC, Watercolor Artist.
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