Art & Love

About this book

"She paints the world she knows--taboo, tender, and utterly alive."Art & Love is an intimate, unflinching memoir of an artist's life shaped by the counterculture of the Sixties and beyond, devotion to craft, and the quest for mastery and lasting love.Amidst self-doubt and romantic intrigue, the author commits herself to the demanding practice of egg tempera painting--a rare art form she considers her artistic soul. Her journey includes communal living that ranges from the benign to the cult-like, forays into San Francisco's sex underground, and work as a nurse during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, experiences that inspire frank visual and narrative depictions of death and dying, intimacy, and bodily experience that will resonate most with unsqueamish readers.Luminous artwork appears throughout, documenting the passage of time and reflecting an artist's resilience and self-discovery in sustaining a creative life. For more information, visit the author's website at arbrador.com.--Lora Arbrador