Victoria Harper

The result of my mothers love affair and blamed for my mothers divorce, As an infant I was placed for adoption with cousins The adoption did not go through at the age of four, and I was placed with my grandmother and half sister. My grandmother encouraged my creativity and musical talent and understood my feelings of rejection and abandonment. At age 13, I was sent to London to study classical piano and art. Came back to USA and married and gave birth to one child who I ultimately raised on …See all

The result of my mothers love affair and blamed for my mothers divorce, As an infant I was placed for adoption with cousins The adoption did not go through at the age of four, and I was placed with my grandmother and half sister. My grandmother encouraged my creativity and musical talent and understood my feelings of rejection and abandonment. At age 13, I was sent to London to study classical piano and art. Came back to USA and married and gave birth to one child who I ultimately raised on my own. Eventually I was able to earn an MS in Clinical Psychology and work as an adoption counselor with special needs children and potential adoptive families. Later I worked as a family therapist for a non profit. From there I worked as a psychotherapist and behavior specialist with men and women who cycled through various degrees of mental illness. Continuing to express myself with painting, I began working with patients who self injured to relieve their anxiety and with cyclical serious delusions all of which inspire the images of my surrealistic acrylic abstracts on canvas. I work full time now as an artist and prefer to sell the Giclee limited editions of my numbered prints which are printed museum quality, hand embellished with clear gels and beads to match the originals which are produced by Artfinity Art Gallery in Sarasota Florida.The originals are on stretched canvas and the giclees are produced on canvas and may be ordered in different sizes, may be shipped in tubes and boxed or my gallery with stretch the Giclee and frame for shipping. They are sold with a certificate of authencity and copy of my bio. The originals are for sale also. But I choose to list the giclees with Artupia When I start a painting I have no image in mind but I paint until I begin to feel a level of discomfort. It is then I know I am touching on the bazaar images in the minds caused by the mental disorders of the patients I treated, and yet I always wonder how much represents my own internal emotional distress and how much is my perception of what goes on in the minds of my patients. See less