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ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
This is not a painting for sale. The original is going to Shawna, Tremayne’s daughter. Every $13 contribution brings this painting one step closer to home. Help a community of strangers come together to send a father's love home to his daughter.
ABOUT THIS PAINTING
Tremayne painted this for his daughter Shawna. She was born 4 months after he went to prison. He's been in prison her entire life. She's in her thirties now with 2 children of her own.
Shawna carries anger. She needed her father and he wasn't there. Year after year, she heard he might come home. Year after year, the answer was no. After too many no's, she stopped letting herself believe it. She built walls so she wouldn't get hurt again.
This painting is Tremayne's way of saying what words alone can't. Shawna is the beauty inside the heart. The raging water is every bad decision he made. And the waves crashing against the rocks are him fighting to get back into her life, to be the father and grandfather he hasn't been able to be.
In Tremayne's words: "How else could I explain and get her to see it other than a picture?"
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York and have been incarcerated for over 30 years. I taught myself to paint to manage crippling anxiety that has followed me my entire life. That personal healing led me to create Colorful Transformations, a 12-week program inside Lawrenceville Correctional Center that teaches men how to use art to manage anxiety, stress, and depression. I have led multiple sessions of the program and plan to work with young people through art when I come home.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
This is not a painting for sale. The original is going to Shawna, Tremayne’s daughter. Every $13 contribution brings this painting one step closer to home. Help a community of strangers come together to send a father's love home to his daughter.
ABOUT THIS PAINTING
Tremayne painted this for his daughter Shawna. She was born 4 months after he went to prison. He's been in prison her entire life. She's in her thirties now with 2 children of her own.
Shawna carries anger. She needed her father and he wasn't there. Year after year, she heard he might come home. Year after year, the answer was no. After too many no's, she stopped letting herself believe it. She built walls so she wouldn't get hurt again.
This painting is Tremayne's way of saying what words alone can't. Shawna is the beauty inside the heart. The raging water is every bad decision he made. And the waves crashing against the rocks are him fighting to get back into her life, to be the father and grandfather he hasn't been able to be.
In Tremayne's words: "How else could I explain and get her to see it other than a picture?"
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York and have been incarcerated for over 30 years. I taught myself to paint to manage crippling anxiety that has followed me my entire life. That personal healing led me to create Colorful Transformations, a 12-week program inside Lawrenceville Correctional Center that teaches men how to use art to manage anxiety, stress, and depression. I have led multiple sessions of the program and plan to work with young people through art when I come home.