WHILE millions of people around the globe were celebrating
the dawn of a new millennium on New Year’s Day, a remarkable North American woman was waking up to her 51st birthday.
But best-selling author, artist and teacher, Jeanne Carbonetti, very nearly never made it much past five, having been struck down with a life-threatening illness - something she now recognises transformed her life and was the dawn of her own spiritual journey.
She was immobilised by the disease, which attacked her heart, even having to be carried from her
bedroom to the bathroom, such was the physical exhaustion that accompanied it.
But it profoundly affected her, making her face her own mortality at a very early age and from it sprang an inner determination to follow her creative instinct - expressing her spirituality directly through art.
Forty-five years on Jeanne lives nestled in her self-made home in the beautiful village of Chester, Vermont, set in the luscious countryside of the Green Mountains of New England.
She
is happily married to husband Larry - the best teacher she has ever met - and lives at the Crow Hill Gallery, the home, art gallery and workshop they built themselves whilst commuting from their New Jersey home, five hours each way on weekends, over three years.
It was a labour of love in the truest sense and its completion in 1982 allowed Jeanne to give up teaching media studies and English and devote herself entirely to art.
Since then she has written three best sellers -
The Tao of Watercolour, The Zen of Creative Painting and The Yoga of Drawing. | |
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