T Angelique Sorrell
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| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Artist |
| Introduction | T Angelique Sorrell enjoys the collaboration process of a commission. Whether she is painting a commission of a pet, a portrait, or someone's childhood home she feels getting to know her subject well is crucial to making someone's memory come to life on canvas. While she paints she considers the technical aspects, but she also muses the questions "What story am I telling, what feeling am I trying to paint? Her studies have been in depth and perspective, still life and portraiture. She works in both acrylics and oil. Each commission is an opportunity to look into anther human's soul and create something that would be a blessing. |
| Interests | T. Angelique offers her talents in the community. Her first mural was painted on the library wall at her high school. She has completed five very large murals within the Public School System and as well as one for a local Christian School. In 2012 she worked with several local teens to design and paint a 20' x 60' outdoor community mural. Her purpose in doing this was to teach teens to give back to society and create something beautiful for a local Drug Rehabilitation Home. She has also obtained a Chaplaincy Degree at Duke University Hospital, an Associate of Divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary and nonprofit status for Hosanna Covenant Ministries -"Art for Transforming." Her wildest dream is for her nonprofit to open an art home for troubled teens where teens can learn to play the fiddle, paint, do theater, talk and laugh. Where old ladies sit on the porch, and teach teens to sew costumes, or knit and crochet, and grandpas teach how to wood work, carve and garden. To teach troubled teens to do art, instead of drugs- and to cook quiche not meth. In the early 1960’s an uncle who lived several states away had an effect on her understanding of art, and the human soul. He was a talented artist but after many years of heavy drug addiction, his artwork began to exhibit a convoluted desperation that only he understood. When he died she was given one of his paintings, a portrait of Jesus' face, and in-spite of having never met her uncle, his story, no matter how useless to anyone else, made an impact for others. |