DreamSpace Arts is where dreams come to play. It is a safe haven for those who have lost their ability to express that part of themselves that is unique and special. Our dream is to someday build a Healing Center staffed by artisans, therapists, and support staff to help those in need. We’re making it even easier for you to help AND reap the benefits of your gift as well. Beginning in August 2010 we’re doing a fundraiser with Entertainment Books. You can order from the site or email us directly. We thought about all the different fundraising opportunities there are out there and chose to go with this one as the easiest and best value for the money. In case you don’t know about Entertainment Books, they are coupon books that cut your expenses for doing the things you do already.
We reach out to those who, for one reason or another, illness, abuse, violence or intimidation, have lost themselves and their voices, and provide a pathway for them to restore their hearts and souls and lead created lives of joy and abundance. If you can donate art supplies or if you would like to be involved with DSA, please contact us. We know we can make this work.
DreamSpace Arts is where dreams come to play and you can, too. Feel free to pull up a chair and have a seat in the gallery, leave a quick note in our blog or play with us and sign up for a workshop or two.
Enjoy! If you ever have any questions, feel free to contact me.
If you’d like to help, click below and join us. Your kind financial donations will go towards art supplies, finding a dedicated space, and advertising so those who need us can find us.
About DeBorah Beatty
DeBorah’s journey began as a young girl on the island of Guam. Her father was an artist who could draw, paint, sculpt, carve, whittle, you name it, he could do it and he was absolutely the apple of a young gal’ s eye! In spite of his best efforts to teach her how to do the things he could, she just couldn’ t grasp them. No matter how hard she wanted to draw, she had problems drawing a straight line with a ruler! Drawing people and things, well, they all came out looking like the same blobs. She was so disappointed.
Her art until recently had always been music. DeBorah began performing at 7 with a ballet recital. Singing followed at 9 when her father gave me a guitar he’ d found in pieces after a typhoon and had put back together with wood glue and plumbing tape. She taught herself to play and began a career that led to stages over the next seventeen years from Agana, Guam to San Francisco, California.
DeBorah credits her choir director, David Pace, as well as her high school French teacher, Madame Hildy Jarman, as having had the biggest influence on her voice. Recognizing raw potential, they gave her the opportunity to hone her instrument through many solo performances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at music festivals and private concerts, nudging and coaching her until her four and a half octave range was as easy as breathing.
But then, in 1984, my father passed away and seemingly left her his gift. Now she can draw, she paints, she sculpts, she even whittles (a little), but mostly, she dyes.
In 1998, DeBorah met her husband, Rich, who introduced her to the world of fabric dyes. Cool toys! She has embraced them and made them her own special medium adding in all the other things she loves in an eclectic style that frequently defies description.
I am definitely an abstract artist. Most of my pieces are designed to elicit a visceral reaction separate from left-brain analysis. I try to keep my pieces simple and expressive, entertaining and thought provoking. I want them to be art that people will want to look at for a long time before they see everything in the piece. Just as our lives are layers of experiences, so, too, are my pieces layers on layers of thoughts, feelings and expressions.
Recently I have begun to look at my doodles on paper in a different light. They have become family to me and are taking on a life of their own as well as any good child should.
For information on what else I do, click here to go to my coaching website.
DreamSpace Arts was originally created as a way for me to dig my way out of a nasty bout of depression. My life was not going so great at the time and I escaped into small works of art where I could express myself. It occurred to me that one of the things I could do was show others how to do the same thing. So, now, DreamSpace Arts (DSA) stands as a portal for others to find their voices that have been silenced by illness, abuse or violence. Won’t you come along on this fabulous journey and help me to make a real difference in the lives of others.
