Client Love Testimonials

“I divorced in 2021 after a 25-year marriage. There were days, I fluctuated from feeling like I was falling into a dark black hole, to being buoyantly optimistic. I am so grateful that I took the leap to join Divorcing Gracefully. The group discussions, module practices, and interactions with Dona, Kati, and Jacki took me on an uplifting, life-altering journey, toward self-discovery and self-actualization. I can now joyfully announce, that I am a full-time Artist after teaching art on the side for over 35 years.
All my life I knew I was born to be a visual Artist. Raised on Chicago’s North Shore, I yearned for nature and the wild and wanted desperately to live like the kids in the movies who went fishing and walked across the creek by placing stepping stones in the moving water. Instead, digging in the mud in my backyard was my favorite pastime. I loved the feel of earth squishing through my fingers and often spent hours manipulating and forming imaginary cities and odd creatures. As I grew, so did my materials. My dresser drawers were filled with scraps of garbage I collected off the neighborhood streets. A rusted muffler would become a body for a figure. A milk carton would be transformed into a diorama. My hands became my tools. Like a shovel to a gardener, I unearthed my inner artist. I knew at a very young age that I could conjure up beautiful things and bring them into existence. When I was creating, I was present and content, I was at home.

My current artworks speak of inner growth, universal energy, and transformation.

My work is ethereal in nature and created for the purpose of informing and raising spirits. This body of work invites viewers to dive into personal power and guides them toward finding peace, joy, and healing. My sculptures inhabit and confront challenging themes such as memory and loss, darkness and light, intimacy, and seduction. For inspiration, I look at forces of nature: topographical images of hurricanes and Hubble Space Telescope images. Capturing emotional states or the energy of now, I use that impetus as fuel to drive my process. I begin many of my works by drawing gesturally with wire or steel rods – twisting, melting, and manipulating until the armature speaks to me. My three-dimensional artworks are formed by stretching an opaque fabric over a linear steel construction. My airy sculptures look like floating, celestial cloud formations or other-worldly figures that have come to life. Welded steel, glass, Eco Epoxy resin, sewn acrylic coated fabrics, fade-proof parachute fabric, and color-changing LED lights – these innovative, durable materials act as vehicles for expression in my suspended public sculptures. You can view my work at jillkingstudio.com”