About the Artist of Meddy Creations
Amelia Rucker Thompson (ART) is a Chicago native. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend to many. She is a Black woman with lived experience in the third largest city in the United States, As the wife of a veteran with PTSD, Amelia's passion and talent for creating artwork was spurred, at the Jesse Brown VA Hospital, where she discovered Art Therapy as a coping mechanism for stress and a source of emotional healing. When she is not creating art she is a licensed barber and cosmetologist.
Amelia (ART) uses her art to visually portray a wide range of emotions and experiences, from profound joy to heartfelt sorrow, from victimization and trauma to victory. She uses colors, shapes, lines and images to communicate powerful ideas, feelings, emotions, dreams, and aspirations. Her art is appreciated by a wide audience based and has broad appeal, regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, creed, nationality, or religion.
ART is inspired and motivated to create by her love for seeing colors come together to form abstract paintings; using acrylic, oil, water color, and "ordinary things" from everyday life as mediums of artistic expression. According to ART, "The creative process of making art has been healing and life changing." Her art style has been described as Meditating Art, Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism, Modern Art, and Action Painting.
ART loves seeing Gods' creativity expressed though her as a human vessel. She seeks to create art that instills hope, universality, and altruism. She believes she was destined and created to make art, "It's in the name: Amelia Rucker Thompson (ART)...I love creating art for myself that I enjoy --- and, I hope you enjoy it too," she said.