Heart Painter Catherine Jo Morgan

Painter of love

My true heart's desire is to open more and more to unconditional love, so it can flow through me into the world — in the way I look at you and listen to you — and the way my paintings look at you and listen to you.

I long to make paintings that radiate unconditional love, paintings that evoke hope and courage — paintings of good news.

This isn’t something I can do alone. I need help from God and from many other people.

Perhaps you are among the people who want to encourage and help me, both to make the paintings, and to get them where they’re needed.

How I got here

Wildflowers and dogs are my first favorite memories. Trees, music, and imagination soon became lifelong loves. My favorite places to be have always been outdoors and art studios. I have lived in cities I savored — Chicago and Atlanta — and now live and paint in a rustic tiny cabin in the woods of Northeast Georgia, ten miles from the nearest towns.

Painting is my third career, drawing into play what I learned as a psychologist working with individuals, groups, and organizations — and then as an artist-blacksmith and mixed media sculptor. My first heart paintings were inspired by my father’s death from heart attacks, and in 2007 I made a full commitment to making heart paintings.

That was when my surgeon woke me from a lung biopsy, saying “Cathy, it’s not cancer.” My first thought was “Now I can make more heart paintings.” Eight years later, while I driving to Atlanta one day, I amazed myself by blurting out loud “OK God, I’ll do whatever you want.”

For the first time, I heard God’s voice. Crystal clear. “I want you to make heart paintings, and put them where people are disheartened.” Unless I hear otherwise, this is how I’ll spend the rest of my life.

Usually my abstract paintings use just color and symbols, especially the heart symbol. When I use words, I write to the edge of where words can go, and let paint go deeper and beyond. The paintings open my heart more and more to the love that was always here for me, even when I didn’t know it.

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