The Art of Giving Back

On Tuesday mornings Adrienne Watts usually welcomes clients as a volunteer. Now, her artwork greets everyone daily. A professional artist, she generously donated several of her paintings for
Resurrection House’s client dayroom.

Adrienne began her creative endeavors as a part-time watercolor artist, specializing in portraits and still lifes. Since retiring from her successful career in fi nance and real estate, she decided to try her hand at a new genre and medium.

“Because I was always drawn to abstract paintings in galleries and museums, I decided to try that style,” she says. “Th is decision required a switch from watercolor to acrylic paint, from working on paper to working on larger canvas and wood substrates and learning to handle new art materials.”

All her paintings at Resurrection House represent her abstract style. She donated them after the client dayroom’s makeover this summer.

“The soft yellow walls were a perfect match for several small square paintings I’d made over the last year and had in my inventory,” Adrienne says. “The largest painting, 4 ft. x 6 ft., was one I had in process and completed with the intention of complementing the interior and other smaller pieces I was donating.”

Her artwork is often on display at local galleries, and she also sells her pieces online. But she was pleased to give her pieces to Resurrection House.

“I did this because I think Resurrection House provides a great service to our community and it gives me happiness to share my artwork with the staff and clients,” Adrienne says. “It’s my hope that the peaceful intention behind and nature of the work contributes to the safe, comfortable feeling clients experience when they are within the walls of Resurrection House.”