"Being Able to Bend"..Guest Artist, Sandra Baker-Hinton shares her challenge to paint!

I thought of a metaphor Willow trees can bend because of its flexibility but the beautiful ornamental pears just break, split apart, & must be cut down when a strong storm hits. Sandra shares her life's journey similar to the flexility of a Willow Tree. Join Sandra & learn how she has always felt strongly about her love of art since her childhood.As she followed her passion to be an artist she always looked for opportunities to pursue her career even in small ways as she raised her childreno finding watercolor classes to attend. This path le her to her career as a professional artist. She founded the local Chattanooga cooperative which almost 40 years later still in operation. It was during this time she learned valuable business lessons that are important for an artist to learn. In 2002 Sandra moved to Amelia Island. It was only failure that led her to make this move,everyday she is so thankful for what seemed like the worst possible thing to be such a positive step in her life.Sandra says,"I think that this is one of the lessons in life." During our interview Sandra will share how her challenges have made something good come as a result of bad.She says,"You can't learn if you don't fail sometimes.The greatest lesson in life is to land on your feet,adjust your direction with the options you have and don't dwell on the past."Sandra will share about her challenges & her lessons that lead her to say, "We have but one chance and we have gotta play it for what its worth. We have to remember any decisions we made behind us were made with the best information we had at the time. There is no 20-20 vision when looking ahead. No second guessing what you choose to do." As Sandra shares her unbelievable story with us she will tell us how these challenges helped her to continue to pursue her career and become a well-known artist and the owner of her own gallery, The Amelia SanJon Gallery. She will even share about her love and involvement with the Sea Turtle.