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Just a little note to say that if you've messaged or emailed me recently, I'm slowly but surely making my way towards responding ✨ - think of it as digital snail mailllll.

Even though I seem to have lots to say about finding your balance, saying no to protect your energy etc etc etc...I took on a bit too much over the holidays and am somewhat a distraught vapor.

It's so easy for me to forget that even good energy is still energy out. I'm challenging myself to cross off things from my to-do list today, not in a ✔️/done way but a nope, not in my journey type of way.

Try it with me today & tell me what you're doing with your time back below? ✨

Orrrrr tell me on FRIDAY in person at the @rentalsalesgallerypam Winter Member's Showcase from 4-7pm in the beautiful downtown #pdx park blocks. I was lucky to catch a few fellow artists dropping off their work at the same time, and you won't want to miss!

Just a little note to say that if you've messaged or emailed me recently, I'm slowly but surely making my way towards responding ✨ - think of it as digital snail mailllll.

Even though I seem to have lots to say about finding your balance, saying no to protect your energy etc etc etc...I took on a bit too much over the holidays and am somewhat a distraught vapor.

It's so easy for me to forget that even good energy is still energy out. I'm challenging myself to cross off things from my to-do list today, not in a ✔️/done way but a nope, not in my journey type of way.

Try it with me today & tell me what you're doing with your time back below? ✨

Orrrrr tell me on FRIDAY in person at the @rentalsalesgallerypam Winter Member's Showcase from 4-7pm in the beautiful downtown #pdx park blocks. I was lucky to catch a few fellow artists dropping off their work at the same time, and you won't want to miss!

Selfie

Full disclosure, this started as an angry ink blop...but ended somewhere softer.

Mwah.
L

#lindseyjoyholcombart #selﬁe #inkart

Selfie

Full disclosure, this started as an angry ink blop...but ended somewhere softer.

Mwah.
L

#lindseyjoyholcombart #selﬁe #inkart

@coloursartsupplies I LOVE how the frame came out for Audience in Sumi 🫰🏻...this work is headed over to @rentalsalesgallerypam (alongside Cochineal Torii) today.

Available for purchase (or to rent if you're a museum member!) at the Winter Member's Showcase coming up on Friday, 12/5 from 4-7pm, so mark your calendar to take home my favorite piece from this year. 🖤

...and if you happen to be downtown beautiful #pdx today and see a giant box on the ground with legs sticking out, it might be me.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #aapi

@coloursartsupplies I LOVE how the frame came out for Audience in Sumi 🫰🏻...this work is headed over to @rentalsalesgallerypam (alongside Cochineal Torii) today.

Available for purchase (or to rent if you're a museum member!) at the Winter Member's Showcase coming up on Friday, 12/5 from 4-7pm, so mark your calendar to take home my favorite piece from this year. 🖤

...and if you happen to be downtown beautiful #pdx today and see a giant box on the ground with legs sticking out, it might be me.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #aapi

Details from my fall work ~ would love your thoughts!

#lindseyjoyholcombart #oregon #art

Details from my fall work ~ would love your thoughts!

#lindseyjoyholcombart #oregon #art

It's been a week since my @opbartbeat story aired ( 🔗 in my bio ), and I have a lot of gratitude in my heart.

A HUGE thank you to the OPB team for capturing this moment in time in my artwork & family, it's such a gift to have. Thank you also for all of the kind messages of support, follows, calls & emails -- I am overwhelmed with the response! ❤️

Next up around here, preparing for the @rentalsalesgallerypam Winter Member Showcase on Friday, 12/5! Please come see my new work, Cochineal Torii, and say hello!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#pdxart
#modernart

It's been a week since my @opbartbeat story aired ( 🔗 in my bio ), and I have a lot of gratitude in my heart.

A HUGE thank you to the OPB team for capturing this moment in time in my artwork & family, it's such a gift to have. Thank you also for all of the kind messages of support, follows, calls & emails -- I am overwhelmed with the response! ❤️

Next up around here, preparing for the @rentalsalesgallerypam Winter Member Showcase on Friday, 12/5! Please come see my new work, Cochineal Torii, and say hello!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#pdxart
#modernart

Ok friends, it appears this last May wasn't just a fever dream! Catch me on an episode of Oregon Art Beat THIS Thursday at 8pm (+ a companion article on the same day) -

-Available to watch online (🔗 in my b i o)
-Local OR channel 10

(To be on @pbs , the home of Big Bird no less, in the year of 2025?? Wild. An honor. I grew up watching Oregon Art Beat. 🫶🏻)

A HUGE thank you to @stephanie_anderson_fineart
, a fellow Oregon artist and total art-throb for agreeing to being featured & trusting me with her #mri and story. Give her a follow and feast your eyes on her powerful and colorful work! Also, Stephanie, please forgive me for absent-mindedly suggesting calamari the last time we got together. Just 🤦🏻.

(Watch the episode and you'll understand why!)

Thank you to Geneva and the @opbartbeat team for an amazing experience! Please tune in, and support public broadcasting. 🖤

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Screams and jazz hands,
l

Ok friends, it appears this last May wasn't just a fever dream! Catch me on an episode of Oregon Art Beat THIS Thursday at 8pm (+ a companion article on the same day) -

-Available to watch online (🔗 in my b i o)
-Local OR channel 10

(To be on @pbs , the home of Big Bird no less, in the year of 2025?? Wild. An honor. I grew up watching Oregon Art Beat. 🫶🏻)

A HUGE thank you to @stephanie_anderson_fineart
, a fellow Oregon artist and total art-throb for agreeing to being featured & trusting me with her #mri and story. Give her a follow and feast your eyes on her powerful and colorful work! Also, Stephanie, please forgive me for absent-mindedly suggesting calamari the last time we got together. Just 🤦🏻.

(Watch the episode and you'll understand why!)

Thank you to Geneva and the @opbartbeat team for an amazing experience! Please tune in, and support public broadcasting. 🖤

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Screams and jazz hands,
l

work in progress - 7'x6' sumi ink & acrylic

#lindseyjoyholcombart #abstractart

work in progress - 7'x6' sumi ink & acrylic

#lindseyjoyholcombart #abstractart

this and that ✨

#lindseyjoyholcombart #inkdrawing

this and that ✨

#lindseyjoyholcombart #inkdrawing

Boundless I, an absolute celebration of handmade ink from the #pnw , is off to its new home in New York! Always a huge thanks to the amazing team at @artlifting - you make such a difference in my life.

Boundless as a collection illustrates smooth and intentional movement in my studio, practiced daily like a dance or yoga flow. These pieces were such a triumph after a year of shoulder and neck pain. The collection also helped me explore place making through the use of handmade ink, as a way of saying 'I am here' through color.

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If you'd like to enhance your home or workplace with Boundless I, it can still be purchased as a print or reproduction in a variety of sizes and media, through the 🔗 in my b i o, alongside the rest of the collection.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #naturalink #originalart

Boundless I, an absolute celebration of handmade ink from the #pnw , is off to its new home in New York! Always a huge thanks to the amazing team at @artlifting - you make such a difference in my life.

Boundless as a collection illustrates smooth and intentional movement in my studio, practiced daily like a dance or yoga flow. These pieces were such a triumph after a year of shoulder and neck pain. The collection also helped me explore place making through the use of handmade ink, as a way of saying 'I am here' through color.

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If you'd like to enhance your home or workplace with Boundless I, it can still be purchased as a print or reproduction in a variety of sizes and media, through the 🔗 in my b i o, alongside the rest of the collection.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #naturalink #originalart

Today I'm starting a painting commissioned by two daughters for their mother, which is seriously filling my heart up ✨. I'm missing seeing Anna's piece around the studio, but the excitement of watching a new work unfold is real!

#lindseyjoyholcombart #colorsofms #originalartwork

Today I'm starting a painting commissioned by two daughters for their mother, which is seriously filling my heart up ✨. I'm missing seeing Anna's piece around the studio, but the excitement of watching a new work unfold is real!

#lindseyjoyholcombart #colorsofms #originalartwork

When Anna contacted me for a private commission, she shared with me her diagnosis story and that being diagnosed with MS had been a 'weird and life-altering adventure' but still considered herself lucky with the speed of her diagnosis (due to family history) amid the fear of uncertainty.

"I think it’s important to not let the unknowns of the future affect my life now, except as motivation to take advantage of the movement and cognitive abilities that I currently have. It's good to have a reminder not to beat myself up for resting, and to say no if I need to - that one is much harder for me.

I like the idea of turning an image of what was a jarring and bad experience into something just truly beautiful. I’m hoping this artwork can somehow help to convey the incredible complexity that is not only this disease, but also my feelings about and adventure with it so far.'

Anna, thank you for trusting me to hold your story and to create this artwork for you. I hope that it is a daily reminder of strength and resilience for you.

#colorsofms #multiplesclerosis #lindseyjoyholcombart

When Anna contacted me for a private commission, she shared with me her diagnosis story and that being diagnosed with MS had been a 'weird and life-altering adventure' but still considered herself lucky with the speed of her diagnosis (due to family history) amid the fear of uncertainty.

"I think it’s important to not let the unknowns of the future affect my life now, except as motivation to take advantage of the movement and cognitive abilities that I currently have. It's good to have a reminder not to beat myself up for resting, and to say no if I need to - that one is much harder for me.

I like the idea of turning an image of what was a jarring and bad experience into something just truly beautiful. I’m hoping this artwork can somehow help to convey the incredible complexity that is not only this disease, but also my feelings about and adventure with it so far.'

Anna, thank you for trusting me to hold your story and to create this artwork for you. I hope that it is a daily reminder of strength and resilience for you.

#colorsofms #multiplesclerosis #lindseyjoyholcombart

my knee is puffing up, so rain's a-comin'

Signed,
A 90-year old, I mean, a Lindsey

(from just outside not-war-torn-Portland)

#beautifulpnw

my knee is puffing up, so rain's a-comin'

Signed,
A 90-year old, I mean, a Lindsey

(from just outside not-war-torn-Portland)

#beautifulpnw

So glad to hear that Reunited found its forever home! A big thank you to the wonderful team at @rentalsalesgallerypam ✨

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #pdx

So glad to hear that Reunited found its forever home! A big thank you to the wonderful team at @rentalsalesgallerypam ✨

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #pdx

Sorry to all the summer babes, but bring on the cold weather please. Meanwhile, here are some icy oil pastels for ya.

Signed,
Tired of being a swamp monster

PS - loads of sunnier oil pastels in my ArtLifting 🔗. I highly recommend surrounding yourself in enormous prints of the whole collection, but that's just me. 😘

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#mixedmedia

Sorry to all the summer babes, but bring on the cold weather please. Meanwhile, here are some icy oil pastels for ya.

Signed,
Tired of being a swamp monster

PS - loads of sunnier oil pastels in my ArtLifting 🔗. I highly recommend surrounding yourself in enormous prints of the whole collection, but that's just me. 😘

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#mixedmedia

Blue chiffon for the a p o c a l y p s e makes my artist 🖤 happy!

Dress & head wrap by @hello_darling_co

#lindseyjoyholcombart #aapiownedbusiness

Blue chiffon for the a p o c a l y p s e makes my artist 🖤 happy!

Dress & head wrap by @hello_darling_co

#lindseyjoyholcombart #aapiownedbusiness

Like finding shapes in the passing clouds, Yoshino MRI reimagined my #multiplesclerosis scan into cherry blossoms.

Yoshino MRI, 2024
20 x 24
sappanwood ink and thread on Rives BFK

Fine art reproductions in a variety of sizes and media available through my ArtLifting portfolio, 🔗 in my b i o

#lindseyjoyholcombart #sakura #mri

Like finding shapes in the passing clouds, Yoshino MRI reimagined my #multiplesclerosis scan into cherry blossoms.

Yoshino MRI, 2024
20 x 24
sappanwood ink and thread on Rives BFK

Fine art reproductions in a variety of sizes and media available through my ArtLifting portfolio, 🔗 in my b i o

#lindseyjoyholcombart #sakura #mri

Gashadokoru, a yokai (broad umbrella of supernatural beings, monsters, spirits) from Japanese folklore, formed from the spirits and bones of those lost in mass famine or battle into a large and menacing skeleton. The 'starving skeleton' would haunt countryside roads, seeking revenge on travelers. It often is pictured with bulging eyes, preceded only with the 'gachi gachi' sounds from its teeth.

Terrifying.

Here, I've reimagined Gashadokoru featuring groups of skeletons, rather than a single large form. In the series, they're moving quietly through the mundane - a family sleeping, a childhood embrace, enjoying music, sleeping dogs curled next to each other. The skeletons could be any of us

My hope is this choice highlights the right to life and security, using the fear associated with Gashadokuro to underscore our collective awareness of the heavy toll of mass tragedy.

Currently I have seven pieces in this series, with no particular destination in mind. Many of them are over 60" on Yupo, consisting of handmade vine black ink, sumi and flat black gesso.

See more in my stories 🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #skeleton #art

Gashadokoru, a yokai (broad umbrella of supernatural beings, monsters, spirits) from Japanese folklore, formed from the spirits and bones of those lost in mass famine or battle into a large and menacing skeleton. The 'starving skeleton' would haunt countryside roads, seeking revenge on travelers. It often is pictured with bulging eyes, preceded only with the 'gachi gachi' sounds from its teeth.

Terrifying.

Here, I've reimagined Gashadokoru featuring groups of skeletons, rather than a single large form. In the series, they're moving quietly through the mundane - a family sleeping, a childhood embrace, enjoying music, sleeping dogs curled next to each other. The skeletons could be any of us

My hope is this choice highlights the right to life and security, using the fear associated with Gashadokuro to underscore our collective awareness of the heavy toll of mass tragedy.

Currently I have seven pieces in this series, with no particular destination in mind. Many of them are over 60" on Yupo, consisting of handmade vine black ink, sumi and flat black gesso.

See more in my stories 🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #skeleton #art

My 2025 collection, born from exasperation and a search for words, through the lens of vine black ink and Japanese myth. The year I could not stop painting skeletons.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #myth #aapiartists

My 2025 collection, born from exasperation and a search for words, through the lens of vine black ink and Japanese myth. The year I could not stop painting skeletons.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #myth #aapiartists

If you're thinking of gifting yourself or a loved one the gift of a custom #mri , now is the time! I've decided that I won't be taking any custom requests in December, in an effort to save my energy. 🖤

I have eight slots open, first come first serve - to book your work I ask for 50% payment (with the remainder due prior to shipping). You'll need to have a handful of images ready to view, which I can help you narrow down.

Double-Layered Original Ink & Thread Pricing

9x12 375
11x14 500
20x24 1200

(Custom sizing is available by request, shipping and handling dependant on size)

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Just a reminder that I have a variety of MRI prints available in custom sizes and media available always in my ArtLifting portfolio (🔗 in b i o), as well as one original ready-to-hang MRI painting available at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. These MRI are all based off of my personal multiple sclerosis scans, and are dear to my heart (as well as represent my project and story).

So excited to create for you!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#artinhealthcare
#customart

If you're thinking of gifting yourself or a loved one the gift of a custom #mri , now is the time! I've decided that I won't be taking any custom requests in December, in an effort to save my energy. 🖤

I have eight slots open, first come first serve - to book your work I ask for 50% payment (with the remainder due prior to shipping). You'll need to have a handful of images ready to view, which I can help you narrow down.

Double-Layered Original Ink & Thread Pricing

9x12 375
11x14 500
20x24 1200

(Custom sizing is available by request, shipping and handling dependant on size)

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.
.
Just a reminder that I have a variety of MRI prints available in custom sizes and media available always in my ArtLifting portfolio (🔗 in b i o), as well as one original ready-to-hang MRI painting available at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. These MRI are all based off of my personal multiple sclerosis scans, and are dear to my heart (as well as represent my project and story).

So excited to create for you!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#artinhealthcare
#customart

I've always talked about moods and mental health with my girls by likening it to weather - and right now I'd say I find myself in that sort of grey weather that really gets to Portlanders around April.

I find this system helpful, because it helps move that feeling of blame off our minds, making it an observation instead of identity, plus there's no sense in fighting weather. "I see you're in a storm, I'm here, let me help' vs the 'I'm a bad kid cause I'm crashing out right now.'

When it comes to my kids, I'd focus on bringing comfort back to the body. I'll see if I can take my own advice today and take a walk, have that extra cup of tea, and take a nap. The mornings are crisp, and that's not nothing.

How are you caring for yourself today? 🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #artandhealing

I've always talked about moods and mental health with my girls by likening it to weather - and right now I'd say I find myself in that sort of grey weather that really gets to Portlanders around April.

I find this system helpful, because it helps move that feeling of blame off our minds, making it an observation instead of identity, plus there's no sense in fighting weather. "I see you're in a storm, I'm here, let me help' vs the 'I'm a bad kid cause I'm crashing out right now.'

When it comes to my kids, I'd focus on bringing comfort back to the body. I'll see if I can take my own advice today and take a walk, have that extra cup of tea, and take a nap. The mornings are crisp, and that's not nothing.

How are you caring for yourself today? 🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #artandhealing

Can I use this sound in my next artist talk? 😆

Experimenting with the shippo (七宝) pattern in India ink, behind my skeletons. Shippo translates to "seven treasures" and symbolizes harmony, abundance, and prosperity.

From google, because my coffee has not absorbed yet:
'The pattern itself features an endless, interlocking design of circles that represents the seven sacred treasures of Buddhism, and it is found in various Japanese crafts and textiles.'

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #japaneseculture

Can I use this sound in my next artist talk? 😆

Experimenting with the shippo (七宝) pattern in India ink, behind my skeletons. Shippo translates to "seven treasures" and symbolizes harmony, abundance, and prosperity.

From google, because my coffee has not absorbed yet:
'The pattern itself features an endless, interlocking design of circles that represents the seven sacred treasures of Buddhism, and it is found in various Japanese crafts and textiles.'

#lindseyjoyholcombart #modernart #japaneseculture

A portion from the wall today - quiet coziness from a different lens.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #skeleton #sumi

A portion from the wall today - quiet coziness from a different lens.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #skeleton #sumi

About eyes & faces -

#lindseyjoyholcombart #multiplesclerosis #emergingartist

About eyes & faces -

#lindseyjoyholcombart #multiplesclerosis #emergingartist

An ode to my late summer wild and crispy garden - with #MS I struggle with heat intolerance, so as much as I wish I could be a summer garden person, it's not really in the cards. The good news is the Japanese Anemone is hardy, determined, impossible to kill (even by me) and really likes to be made into vine black ink.

[Sumi Pathways, 2024
60" x 60", unframed
vine black ink and pitt pastel on Yupo
8000]

#lindseyjoyholcombart #aapi #emergingartist

An ode to my late summer wild and crispy garden - with #MS I struggle with heat intolerance, so as much as I wish I could be a summer garden person, it's not really in the cards. The good news is the Japanese Anemone is hardy, determined, impossible to kill (even by me) and really likes to be made into vine black ink.

[Sumi Pathways, 2024
60" x 60", unframed
vine black ink and pitt pastel on Yupo
8000]

#lindseyjoyholcombart #aapi #emergingartist

Gashadokoru
a peek of draft 6, many edits to go
copper solar plate on Rives BFK

-- the missing piece. 💡

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#wip
#emergingartist

Gashadokoru
a peek of draft 6, many edits to go
copper solar plate on Rives BFK

-- the missing piece. 💡

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#wip
#emergingartist

RONDELS in INK is for the people who refuse to be erased, who should never have been made to feel disposable, and who are unapologetically full of color.

🖤

Details in my ArtLifting 🔗 in b i o

#lindseyjoyholcombart #thisisms #pdxart

RONDELS in INK is for the people who refuse to be erased, who should never have been made to feel disposable, and who are unapologetically full of color.

🖤

Details in my ArtLifting 🔗 in b i o

#lindseyjoyholcombart #thisisms #pdxart

Sumi + gold + flat black in progress on the wall ✨

I had a moment of 'should I keep going' last night, and this time paid off...it basically glows in any light, different at every angle. I still have a way to go; another pass of gold, tightening up the black.

Artist friends, I know you can relate to that should-I moment! 😅

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#eyes
#sumi
#pdxart

Sumi + gold + flat black in progress on the wall ✨

I had a moment of 'should I keep going' last night, and this time paid off...it basically glows in any light, different at every angle. I still have a way to go; another pass of gold, tightening up the black.

Artist friends, I know you can relate to that should-I moment! 😅

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#eyes
#sumi
#pdxart

I woke up with my hands shaking, but let's draw faces anyhow. The tremors add character, and by continuing to draw I can document this day. 🖤

(handmade cochineal and iron gall ink, Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo ink on 9x12 cotton paper)

#lindseyjoyholcombart #faces #multiplesclerosis #emergingartist

I woke up with my hands shaking, but let's draw faces anyhow. The tremors add character, and by continuing to draw I can document this day. 🖤

(handmade cochineal and iron gall ink, Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo ink on 9x12 cotton paper)

#lindseyjoyholcombart #faces #multiplesclerosis #emergingartist

Hi #neurologist and #mri friends - I've curated your office for you with meaningful artwork!

(I'll never forget the painting of two geese sitting in a basket in the doctor's office where I received my #MS diagnosis. Their beedy little eyes live rent free in my brain. 😆)

✔️Artist's MRI I-IV, available in a variety of reproduction sizes and applications through my @artlifting portfolio

✔️Artist's MRI IV available framed and ready-to-hang at @rentalsalesgallerypam (750)

Hi #neurologist and #mri friends - I've curated your office for you with meaningful artwork!

(I'll never forget the painting of two geese sitting in a basket in the doctor's office where I received my #MS diagnosis. Their beedy little eyes live rent free in my brain. 😆)

✔️Artist's MRI I-IV, available in a variety of reproduction sizes and applications through my @artlifting portfolio

✔️Artist's MRI IV available framed and ready-to-hang at @rentalsalesgallerypam (750)

I have always loved art, and grew up steeped in it. I went to school for violin performance, but missed studying literature and language. I ended up focusing on Japanese and Asian Studies, and taught English in Japan for a year after graduating.

The creative bug was ever-present though…it just came through in event planning for work and personal projects after hours. It really wasn’t until my multiple sclerosis diagnosis that the proverbial dam broke - I was juggling two in preschool, and was really suffering from ye olde “who am I” crisis that is tired mothers everywhere.

In 2018, after losing my job, my appendix and my grandmother in the span of a week, art was there. I am self-taught, but also held up by a phenomenal network of artists and creatives whose friendship and knowledge have helped me grow.

Through my #colorsofms project work, I have had the honor to connect and work with so many incredible people, change-makers and leaders in the MS community and beyond, including PBS. Brain & Life magazine and podcast, Health Magazine, Montel Williams and more (these can all be found in the link in my bio). I am only seven years into my own diagnosis (in addition to living with #eds #epilepsy #lyme ), and to be perfectly honest with you - I am still in the weeds learning how to navigate my own health journey.

As an artist, if you’re looking for somebody who is super academic and dry…I’m not your gal. I firmly believe anybody can create, and the process of creating is where the power lies. The rest is audacity, which can be exhilarating (and flattening on some days, if you suffer from imposter syndrome like me). The littles are watching, and I want them to see that they can do anything they set their minds to, take up space and that their opinion matters. My daughters have always been at the heart of why I continue to push and put myself out there.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #pdxart #modernart

I have always loved art, and grew up steeped in it. I went to school for violin performance, but missed studying literature and language. I ended up focusing on Japanese and Asian Studies, and taught English in Japan for a year after graduating.

The creative bug was ever-present though…it just came through in event planning for work and personal projects after hours. It really wasn’t until my multiple sclerosis diagnosis that the proverbial dam broke - I was juggling two in preschool, and was really suffering from ye olde “who am I” crisis that is tired mothers everywhere.

In 2018, after losing my job, my appendix and my grandmother in the span of a week, art was there. I am self-taught, but also held up by a phenomenal network of artists and creatives whose friendship and knowledge have helped me grow.

Through my #colorsofms project work, I have had the honor to connect and work with so many incredible people, change-makers and leaders in the MS community and beyond, including PBS. Brain & Life magazine and podcast, Health Magazine, Montel Williams and more (these can all be found in the link in my bio). I am only seven years into my own diagnosis (in addition to living with #eds #epilepsy #lyme ), and to be perfectly honest with you - I am still in the weeds learning how to navigate my own health journey.

As an artist, if you’re looking for somebody who is super academic and dry…I’m not your gal. I firmly believe anybody can create, and the process of creating is where the power lies. The rest is audacity, which can be exhilarating (and flattening on some days, if you suffer from imposter syndrome like me). The littles are watching, and I want them to see that they can do anything they set their minds to, take up space and that their opinion matters. My daughters have always been at the heart of why I continue to push and put myself out there.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #pdxart #modernart

An important tenet of my studio work is that I create when I am able, in order to prioritize my health and balance. MRI ink and thread works are more demanding on my vision and fine motor skills, and while my DMs are always open for commissions, I am not always able to work on a specific timeframe depending on my health, studio load and family schedule . Please consider signing up for my newsletter to be the first to hear about upcoming openings, in addition to watching my stories here on Instagram.

In addition to my ink and thread MRI, I also offer custom digital sumi MRI. These are minimal but impactful, and can be printed however you'd like (not for the purpose of resale). I am always accepting digital commissions, and my hope is that the easier price point makes them more accessible than an original work.

Currently, my MRI ink and thread works range from $350-1200, with larger or custom sizing and payment plans available. I typically ask for a month to complete these, but it can depend on my health and schedule. My digital MRI linework is a flat $150, with a shorter delivery time.

I have been thankful to paint over 400 beautiful brains, alongside sharing so many of your stories over the years. My MRI work is not limited to multiple sclerosis, so if you have a special project in mind, I’d love to hear from you. How my own health journey and experiences are interpreted through art is constantly evolving, so while my MRI work as I have done them since 2019 may not be forever, please keep an eye on this space.

Always feel free to DM me with questions, or email me at hello @ lindseyjoyholcomb.com . I am always delighted to connect about speaking engagements, workshops or creative collaboration.

#mixedmedia #originalartwork #pnwartist #pdxart #oregonartist #disabledartist #creativebusiness

An important tenet of my studio work is that I create when I am able, in order to prioritize my health and balance. MRI ink and thread works are more demanding on my vision and fine motor skills, and while my DMs are always open for commissions, I am not always able to work on a specific timeframe depending on my health, studio load and family schedule . Please consider signing up for my newsletter to be the first to hear about upcoming openings, in addition to watching my stories here on Instagram.

In addition to my ink and thread MRI, I also offer custom digital sumi MRI. These are minimal but impactful, and can be printed however you'd like (not for the purpose of resale). I am always accepting digital commissions, and my hope is that the easier price point makes them more accessible than an original work.

Currently, my MRI ink and thread works range from $350-1200, with larger or custom sizing and payment plans available. I typically ask for a month to complete these, but it can depend on my health and schedule. My digital MRI linework is a flat $150, with a shorter delivery time.

I have been thankful to paint over 400 beautiful brains, alongside sharing so many of your stories over the years. My MRI work is not limited to multiple sclerosis, so if you have a special project in mind, I’d love to hear from you. How my own health journey and experiences are interpreted through art is constantly evolving, so while my MRI work as I have done them since 2019 may not be forever, please keep an eye on this space.

Always feel free to DM me with questions, or email me at hello @ lindseyjoyholcomb.com . I am always delighted to connect about speaking engagements, workshops or creative collaboration.

#mixedmedia #originalartwork #pnwartist #pdxart #oregonartist #disabledartist #creativebusiness

I spy my painting, Audience | Indigo, in 'Night Always Comes' - the #3 movie on @netflix this week! Let me know if you catch it.

We all cheered when we spotted it...so fun! A big thank you to the team at @rentalsalesgallerypam for facilitating.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #pdx #modernart

I spy my painting, Audience | Indigo, in 'Night Always Comes' - the #3 movie on @netflix this week! Let me know if you catch it.

We all cheered when we spotted it...so fun! A big thank you to the team at @rentalsalesgallerypam for facilitating.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #pdx #modernart

Sketching faces on the couch next to my twin sis, while my niece sleeps upstairs is simply the best.

#calligraphy #faces #art #lindseyjoyholcombart

Sketching faces on the couch next to my twin sis, while my niece sleeps upstairs is simply the best.

#calligraphy #faces #art #lindseyjoyholcombart

All you really need to know about me is that my vibe is Bruch Concerto in G minor Opus 26, I.

My teenage self maintains that II is cheesy and I don't care to play it, and I'm pretty sure my shoulder is still wrecked from III.

Thoughts from a past life.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #sketchdaily #graphiteportrait

All you really need to know about me is that my vibe is Bruch Concerto in G minor Opus 26, I.

My teenage self maintains that II is cheesy and I don't care to play it, and I'm pretty sure my shoulder is still wrecked from III.

Thoughts from a past life.

#lindseyjoyholcombart #sketchdaily #graphiteportrait

Head, shoulders, knees and toes ✨

A work in progress #lindseyjoyholcombart #inkart #skeleton

Head, shoulders, knees and toes ✨

A work in progress #lindseyjoyholcombart #inkart #skeleton

tipping point

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmedia #storytelling

tipping point

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmedia #storytelling

this - that's the post. ✨🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmedia #sumi #aapi

this - that's the post. ✨🖤

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmedia #sumi #aapi

Banking this view for future art inspiration 😱

Reminds me of artist @michael_orwick 's work!

#inspirationdaily #artiseverywhere🎨

Banking this view for future art inspiration 😱

Reminds me of artist @michael_orwick 's work!

#inspirationdaily #artiseverywhere🎨

I spy a frog in a state of disbelief...with a slug friend? What do you see?

#lindseyjoyholcombart #toriiseries #inkstories

I spy a frog in a state of disbelief...with a slug friend? What do you see?

#lindseyjoyholcombart #toriiseries #inkstories

origin stories 🖤

featuring:
Torii I, Pastel Landscape, Above | Below, The Abyss

DM for original or reproduction/installations

#lindseyjoyholcombart #naturalink #artstory

origin stories 🖤

featuring:
Torii I, Pastel Landscape, Above | Below, The Abyss

DM for original or reproduction/installations

#lindseyjoyholcombart #naturalink #artstory

A little sneak peek of Cochineal Torii, featuring sumi, handmade cochineal ink and 18k gold paint. The painting of this piece was filmed for @opbartbeat back in May, with the finishing touches wrapped this week and I am so pleased!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#abstractart
#torii

A little sneak peek of Cochineal Torii, featuring sumi, handmade cochineal ink and 18k gold paint. The painting of this piece was filmed for @opbartbeat back in May, with the finishing touches wrapped this week and I am so pleased!

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#abstractart
#torii

This spoke to my heart today - (repost from @robslitquotes )

Peeping in from a break mopping my kitchen (while absolutely b l a r i n g Mendelssohn Octet) -

The ebb and flow of this summer feels like life in bold font: hiding in the AC/unrelenting heat, long pain naps and the happiness of spontaneous fun and activity. Relaxed family & home time / joy of watching your kids grow, and the deep-in-the-soul ache that this comfort isn't the reality of so many families right now. Checking email and refilling meds while so much incomprehensible tragedy is going on feels absurd at the least.

But also, a reminder that rest and self-care is resistance.

(Back to furious classical music mopping...I'm good at dispensing advice that I'm still trying to learn myself.)

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#summervibes
#resist
#mentalhealthmatters

This spoke to my heart today - (repost from @robslitquotes )

Peeping in from a break mopping my kitchen (while absolutely b l a r i n g Mendelssohn Octet) -

The ebb and flow of this summer feels like life in bold font: hiding in the AC/unrelenting heat, long pain naps and the happiness of spontaneous fun and activity. Relaxed family & home time / joy of watching your kids grow, and the deep-in-the-soul ache that this comfort isn't the reality of so many families right now. Checking email and refilling meds while so much incomprehensible tragedy is going on feels absurd at the least.

But also, a reminder that rest and self-care is resistance.

(Back to furious classical music mopping...I'm good at dispensing advice that I'm still trying to learn myself.)

#lindseyjoyholcombart
#summervibes
#resist
#mentalhealthmatters

My favorite artwork is always the one that nobody asked for, but had to be made. It's never a side project, but a necessity.

What has been holding you upright these days? I'd love to know in the comments. ⬇️

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmediaexploration #sumi

My favorite artwork is always the one that nobody asked for, but had to be made. It's never a side project, but a necessity.

What has been holding you upright these days? I'd love to know in the comments. ⬇️

#lindseyjoyholcombart #mixedmediaexploration #sumi

It means whatever you need it to mean; thoughts on a body of work in progress ✨

#sumi #contemporaryart #gold

It means whatever you need it to mean; thoughts on a body of work in progress ✨

#sumi #contemporaryart #gold

Wilted from unprecedented times, but bolstered by summer small magic (discovering a growing lineup of dried mud creatures on my back deck railing, fattening figs, wondering over Felipe's annual dirt crater) ----so all I can do is paint skeletons.

The matte black is an over-painting, covering swaths of ink I made a summer ago (this one was from a handful of copper scrap). Feels so good to paint over them, even though they felt sacred a year ago + this painting in reverse quiets my overactive brain.

(Consider this a PSA, expect lots more skeletons in this space)

This one was a little snapshot of a nap, complete with a chiweewee in bagel formation, a second chiweewee at the hip, and three of four Pyrenees paws (the fourth being in the air, naturally). ✨

#art
#create
#lindseyjoyholcombart

Wilted from unprecedented times, but bolstered by summer small magic (discovering a growing lineup of dried mud creatures on my back deck railing, fattening figs, wondering over Felipe's annual dirt crater) ----so all I can do is paint skeletons.

The matte black is an over-painting, covering swaths of ink I made a summer ago (this one was from a handful of copper scrap). Feels so good to paint over them, even though they felt sacred a year ago + this painting in reverse quiets my overactive brain.

(Consider this a PSA, expect lots more skeletons in this space)

This one was a little snapshot of a nap, complete with a chiweewee in bagel formation, a second chiweewee at the hip, and three of four Pyrenees paws (the fourth being in the air, naturally). ✨

#art
#create
#lindseyjoyholcombart

1 // @creativedebuts

2 // new work l o a d i n g

#lindseyjoyholcombart #art calling all #artcollector

1 // @creativedebuts

2 // new work l o a d i n g

#lindseyjoyholcombart #art calling all #artcollector

A little mix of what I have out there at @artlifting , @rentalsalesgallerypam , in private collections & in my studio.

Niche-down who? 🖤

#mixedmedia #artist #lindseyjoyholcombart

A little mix of what I have out there at @artlifting , @rentalsalesgallerypam , in private collections & in my studio.

Niche-down who? 🖤

#mixedmedia #artist #lindseyjoyholcombart

Still upright over here, as long as I stick to air-conditioning or the respite of shade; it's been a while so 👋🏻.

May-June rocked my system with some epic creative deadlines and projects + nuclear-level end-of-school-year momming et al, so I'm just beginning to reorient myself in the studio.

With the news, the world, and the heaviness, all I want to paint are skeletons at the moment. A landscape turns into a skeleton. A colorful ink wash? Skeleton. I sit down and say ok, let's paint something joyful...skeleton.

They're not the least bit spooky, because it's the meat that is the scary bit. In fact, were I just a skeleton, I think I'd get along with the healthcare system just fine. I'll share more soon, because I'm up to my eyeballs in skeletons over here after a spring that was full of beautiful brains and Torii gates.

That's all for now.

xx
L

#artofinstagram #mixedmedia #lindseyjoyholcombart

Still upright over here, as long as I stick to air-conditioning or the respite of shade; it's been a while so 👋🏻.

May-June rocked my system with some epic creative deadlines and projects + nuclear-level end-of-school-year momming et al, so I'm just beginning to reorient myself in the studio.

With the news, the world, and the heaviness, all I want to paint are skeletons at the moment. A landscape turns into a skeleton. A colorful ink wash? Skeleton. I sit down and say ok, let's paint something joyful...skeleton.

They're not the least bit spooky, because it's the meat that is the scary bit. In fact, were I just a skeleton, I think I'd get along with the healthcare system just fine. I'll share more soon, because I'm up to my eyeballs in skeletons over here after a spring that was full of beautiful brains and Torii gates.

That's all for now.

xx
L

#artofinstagram #mixedmedia #lindseyjoyholcombart

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