Art that I create
and art I appreciate

I’m not a professional artist. I’m simply someone who loves making things with her hands and seeing what shows up on the canvas. It's become a safe place to process and connect with the Spirit. Ever beginning and always evolving.

art by me

My attempt at a rose

You have to start somewhere right? This is just a freestyle. It was cathartic.

This was a simple, quick beginner freestyle done with crayons while sitting at the park with my 19 year old son Benjamin. It was a beautiful sunny day.

I love painting anything! I started painting rocks in resident at Touchstone Ranch Recovery. These were painted here in North TX 2025

photography

I take hundreds of photos any time I go somewhere it seems but especially of my kids. I love capturing their life and expressions. I am only a beginner and a dreamer. Joshua is also becoming quit the photographer too. I love it when he takes me on outings. We walk a trail and takes photos of me. I don't say that out of vanity. Rather that I can feel his love for me emanating through the lens. These are some of those times, things and places we've captured.

by tonya

These photos were captured on the downtown square with my mother at our favorite used bookstore Recycled Books and coffee shop Jupiter House, Denton TX circa 2023