Artworks by residents of San Antonio senior care facilities will be on view at Hindes Fine Art on Sunday from 3-5 p.m.
, is a colorful rendering of a voluminous tree with a big blue crown and a rainbow trunk.
Calvillo had a stroke a couple of years ago and was bedridden for a month, unable to move her arm. Her belief in God, “the ultimate creator,” motivated her, she said. “Look at our world. Look at the sky, the little birds, the flowers, the leaves. Everything is a painting right there unfolding before you.”
“It is the inner spirit of a person that works through them to want to overcome obstacles in life, a stroke, any kind of disability, mental, physical, whatever it is,” Calvillo said of making art. “It is the spirit of a [person] and the Lord helping you to create and want to be a creator of your own world.”
“They love it, and they are so proud, and they show it to you,” Larraga said. Their sense of accomplishment catches on, he said, inspiring other residents to make art.book and decided to undertake publishing a new volume each year, expanding the range and reach of senior artists to be included in what he named The Hidden Art Project.The Hidden Art Project is self-funded. But the retired businessman believes he should share his success.
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