Deaf Artist Brings Healing to Columbine Community with her Brushstrokes

Deaf artist Linda Arnold, who gained recognition from her painting titled "Columbine Remembered", brings healing for another year with her heartfelt brushstrokes that honor the victims of the Columbine tragedy.

Littleton, CO (PRWEB) April 21, 2007 -- Deaf artist Linda Arnold, who gained recognition from her painting titled "Columbine Remembered", brings healing for another year with her heartfelt brushstrokes that honor the victims of the Columbine tragedy and bring healing to the Columbine community in Littleton, Colorado and beyond.

"Art is an powerful way to communicate, emote and instill healing," says the gentle-hearted Arnold, a graduate of the former Colorado Institute of Art who was born over ninety percent deaf and learned the powerful forces of expressing her creativity and celebrating life through her brush and palette.

Arnold also provides art lessons to a small group of students, which include Patty DePooter, a student of Arnold's who lost her son Corey at Columbine. "Whether looking at landscapes, portraits or animals, you can sense the emotion that each stroke of her paintbrush captures in her subjects," says DePooter. "In her landscapes you want to be there. In her portraits you can see the personality and character, and with animals, their demeanor---and so you get a sense of the artist who is gentle, kind and real."

Arnold recently launched a new website to make her work more available to a wider audience. Linda Arnold's website can be visited at http://www.lindaarnoldart.com where the limited edition print can be purchased along with her two other commemorative pieces that honor the victims of Oklahoma City and 9/11. Currently, there are less than 500 prints remaining from her only edition of 2000 of the famed Columbine print.

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