Jessica Roderick

Painting in the rough

It all started one night when I was taking my rubbish to the basement of my apartment building. Propped up next to the industrial waste bin, was a lonely, tattered canvas painting ready to go to landfill. Thinking back to my high school art days, some 10 years ago, where I expressed my creativity though paint on a blank canvas and forgot about everything else that was bothering me, I thought to myself, it would be so good to paint again and it would be such a shame for this old piece of art to go to the rubbish dump.