The Art of Life By Margaux Allard

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Margaux Allard aka Krazy Kat Lady

I was born on October 28, 1965 in Regina Saskatchewan. When I was an infant my dad discovered that I had a severe visual impairment. I am blind in one eye and have about 10% of my vision in the other. Shortly after I was born I was placed in an incubator and my eyes were not properly protected so the oxygen damaged my optic nerves.

For a long time I wouldn't associate my artwork with my visual impairment because I didn't want people to think that I was using my limited eyesight as a means to promote my work Then one day I decided that my visual impairment is a huge part of who I am and I should embrace that. So I chose to share that with others and began to consider my impairment as a challenge rather than a disability and now I share my visual impairment with others as a means to educate and inspire people.

With the use of basic visual aids I attended regular public school. However, this was a very difficult path because I had to deal with a great deal of discrimination but I am so happy that my parents didn't send me to a school for the blind because I feel that their decision has made me a much stronger person today.

I have been drawing since I was a child and I have no formal training other then the basic art classes that I took while attending public school. In my early twenties I discovered that I could add a great deal of detail to my work by drawing through a very strong magnifying glass similar to a jewelers loop. This opened a new doorway for me and dramatically improved the quality of my art. However, I still didn't take my work very serious, my art was always just a pass time for me. I would throw away most of my drawings which my mom would often retrieve from the trash. Then one day my parents were helping a friend at a local craft fair. They had framed up a few of my drawings and asked me to put a price on them. They displayed my drawings at the fair and to my surprise my work was well received and I even sold a couple of pieces. This is what prompted me to take my work more seriously. Time passed and my art started to gain more recognition via local galleries and articles in the paper and magazines as well as through various sites on the Internet.

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