Dalzenia Artist4Peace / AIB / author

Dalzenia Artist4Peace / AIB / author My aim is to serve & impact the lives of women who are surviving sexual trauma
by healing with Art & Daily Affirmations/incantations, etc. Mrs.

MY BEGINNING ~ LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE ARTS

In elementary school, around age 11 in Waller, Texas... a small country town, my favorite time of day was with my art teacher, Mrs Pearl Martin. She encouraged and inspired me to draw and paint. Martin submitted my 1st painting from tempera paints to a city newspaper in Houston for a school Contest and my whimsical art became one of the 10 winners. My fanc

iful underwater goldfish, koi and a baby stingray toured with the other winning contestants work in Japan and the USA! As I grew older, I continued to explore art and this passion never faded. Little did I realize painting murals, canvas prints and floral crafts would later become a driving force connecting me to the core of my courage and authentic self. This vehicle of creative expression freed me from some of my life's most challenging, painful and suppressive episodes giving me what I call my ''Ultimate Freedom''. I graduated Waller High School and went on to attend Rice University in Houston Texas to study art. My Art Professor John O'Neil then became my mentor and support. Thank you to both of those mentoring artists. My Favorite Creative Mediums
I have used many different mediums, such as acrylic glazing, mosaic tiles, (beads, glass, glitter, found objects) photography or whatever speaks to me and catches my fancy, even iron and cement. I believe that working only in any single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests and speaks its own individual style. I also like creating works incorporating the Bagua for Art intended for balancing personal spaces from ''Feng Shui", ~
Where as Murals, in particular are wonderful because you can go large or go home! Inspiration speaks to me as "Artist4Peace"

I enjoy gardening and I even had my own Specialty Landscape company for about 14 years. I also pioneered unique dried and fresh holiday floral design for years in my shop in Houston's Rice Village and freelanced custom floral design work for Craftext and The River Oaks Plant House. Many of my pieces are directly influenced by my relationship with nature. I love recreating around me colorful beauty coupled with the magical essence and unique qualities of plants, pets and wildlife that touches my heart and often shows up in my works .I've dedicated all my work since the year 2000 with the intention to create and direct energies to bringing about World Peace.

Here is a question worth sitting with: what do you actually see when you walk into your own home? Not what is there, but...
05/27/2026

Here is a question worth sitting with: what do you actually see when you walk into your own home?

Not what is there, but what do you still notice? What draws your eye?

What have you stopped seeing because it has been there so long?

"Love Booked. print" and the online art gallery is here, if you need to switch things up.

https://shop.artist4peace.com

There is a format that changes how a work reads on a wall, not just how it looks, but how it feels in a room. Metal prin...
05/25/2026

There is a format that changes how a work reads on a wall, not just how it looks, but how it feels in a room.

Metal prints have a clarity and a presence that is different from anything else.

No frame is competing for attention. Just the work, direct. It is a format worth considering if you want something that holds up over time.

In Focus: "Mia Bella ( In Love). print"

https://shop.artist4peace.com/warehouse-open-edition-prints/art_print_products/207655-1037138006546-1611-n-65nzxw5cqlo

05/22/2026

We are about to get a round of 8 straight days of rain here at the homestead. If your garden is loaded down with tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, and peppers right now, THIS is the time to prepare before the rain hits. PS- I had no picture for this so I thought I would show the water barrel that will be full in the next few days LOL!

Here is what I would do before the first drop falls:

1️⃣ Harvest anything close to ripe right now. Heavy rain can split tomatoes, rot berries, and turn cucumbers soft almost overnight.
2️⃣ Prune lower leaves off tomatoes and other plants touching the soil. Rain splash spreads blight and fungal diseases fast.
3️⃣ Tighten up cages, stakes, and trellises. Wet soil plus wind can topple plants in one storm.
4️⃣ Mulch bare soil heavily with straw, leaves, or pine needles. This helps stop mud splash and keeps diseases from jumping onto leaves.
5️⃣ Open airflow everywhere possible. Thin crowded plants so leaves dry faster between rains.
6️⃣ Put your irrigation systems, timers, and drip lines on pause or turn them off completely. One of the fastest ways to drown roots and explode fungal problems is adding MORE water during an already saturated stretch.

7️⃣ Stop heavy fertilizing before long rain events. Too much nitrogen plus nonstop moisture creates weak growth and nutrient washout.
8️⃣ Spray preventative fungicides BEFORE the rain starts if you use them. Prevention works far better than trying to stop disease afterward.
9️⃣ Check drainage around containers and raised beds, and support heavy fruit branches before they snap under water weight.
🔟 Once the rain ends, remove yellow or spotted leaves immediately to slow disease spread.

One old farmer trick is lightly dusting around vulnerable plants with wood ash before extended rain to help dry the surface faster. Just do not overdo it around acid-loving plants.

A garden can survive a long wet stretch, but airflow, staking, mulch, and prevention make all the difference.

What is the FIRST thing you do before a long stretch of rain hits your garden?

05/22/2026
05/17/2026

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