Art and Works of Carmalita Andrews
I am an American artist from the East Coast and I have always lived near the ocean or the trees and fields of farmland and forest.
I have made art since I was a child. While in early elementary I was recognized as gifted in the arts and was sent to a special school, once a week for the rest of my primary education. I was introduced to deeper art studies and many different mediums. By the time I entered high school, my art had been entered and accepted to display at local businesses, entertainment establishments, and music and event marketing. I continued to advance my educational studies and exposure to mediums and styles for portfolio building to enter higher education as a visual arts major of some sort.
The studying and work paid off and I began my college years at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Art Foundations student. My time was short spent there but not without making lasting memories and impressions. Illness and inability to keep up with the support I needed to survive and thrive in compliance with my grants and workloads sent me back home to Tidewater, where I enrolled as an Arts and Crafts major at the local community college.
The diversity of demographics in age, motivation, and class among my peers fueled my curiosity and craving for deeper knowledge. I pursued other supporting studies in business management and communication. My art took a place happily in the corner of my life but was no longer the driving force behind my education. I began self-interest studies and research in human sexuality, sex in American culture, and the psychology between the sexes. These interests always exposed themselves calmly in my art previously, but while studying I became more fearless in propagating the idea of what was sexual and what was not in my art. I love to probe adult conversations on what society has taught us to be taboo.
In later years, life hit a significant rough patch and much of what made me feel fearless and open to the world turned to insecurity through cynicism. Beauty for forbidden because people choose not to appreciate it fully and freely without ownership. I was disconnected and sought freedom back in my art. I used it to heal and to grow. I found that I was happiest in my kookiest creative late nights and long days than when I was trying to persuade or build relationships through business networking and media marketing. I found yoga and it helped me re-intact the pieces of spirit that became veiled and scattered in my discomfort. My art was always a part of that spirit, a purposeful creation to unveil an emotion or connection meant for our growth. It was never meant to stay in the corner of life, unexposed to sharing the beauty inspiring it. My art is inspired by spirit, the animalism in us all, the beauty in our nature and what connects us to it, and joy because unconventional happiness is simply unlimited in what you can attain.
I am Carmalita Andrews, an artist, yogi, mother, teacher, nurturer, and creator. I dance, laugh, play, eat, and soak in the sunrays and moonbeams, raindrops, and cool breezes. Always with soulful intention.
Do the things that feed your soul.
Surround yourself with things that bring you joy, and treat the most challenging obstacles with gratitude to the memory of being alive.
Contact me for interests in buying art, commissioning work, questions, or more product information. Follow me on Instagram @carms.art for more.
Photo Courtesy of Troy Cooper Art Photography
