Violet Flame
Art & Design
About Me
Hey everyone! My name is Amanda Barnes. I am a disabled Artist living in the Sacramento region of California. Ever since I was a child I had dreamed of becoming an artist and that was all I wanted to do with my life. The past ten years of my life has been the hardest ten years of my life adjusting to my disability but I like to think that I am persevereing through the adversities that life throws at me. I am tremendously thankful to have my brains and my hands to create art and still do what I love most: creating art.
I started doing art at a very young age and my teachers and parents noticed that I was pretty above average when it came to drawing. Throughout my schooling as a child I continued to harness my gift with the help of art instructors in art classes in middle school and high school. I then left high school and attended California College of the Arts in San Francsico for 2 years. During this time in July of 2011 while living in the bay area I was hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk. The driver was never found and I sustained a complete T/12 Spinal Cord Injury and became completely paralyzed from the waist. The doctors told me that I would have less than a 5% chance of ever walking again. Ever since then I have been set on proving them wrong, because one day technology will advance to the point that I might walk again one day with the help of that technology! Since then I have continued to learn, adapt, go to school, and continue educatiing myself in the arts.
In my education at Sierra College thus far I have learned the basics of graphic design, web design, typography, photography, and jewelry making among many other areas of interest, and i am also a naturally gifted fine artist specializing in acrylic painting. I hope that one day I can land a career and be able to continue creating amazing art that speaks to me and helps better the world in a positive way. I am not a quitter and I never give on my dreams, even when faced with numerous hardships in life
Right now I continue to sell my work in order to help sustain me while I continue on to acheive my bachelors degree in Graphic design. I aso sell my work in order to fundraise for things like specialized exercise based physical therapy and dog training for my beautiful service dog in training, Sophie. If you like what you see, please check out my social media pages and dont hesitate to contact me for some personalized art or grapghic design!