Antonia Lindsey, b. 1955, grew up biculturally in the USA & Europe, graduated with a degree in Fine & Applied Art from the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture & Allied Arts, earned her Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, and spent nearly 30 years facilitating visual communication with multicultural children overcoming trauma. She thinks in pictures. Her earliest memory is of being lifted up close to the deep brown eye of a horse, where she & her mother were reflected. It struck her that she was the smaller shape floating in the gaze of the great animal. Art is how she navigates internal dialogue, imagination & form. It has been her magic carpet and way to connect with others, lifting her from temporal constraints of Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which she overcomes with meditation and Wim Hof cold swimming. Antonia’s life is proof that “Art is not just a Thing, it is a Way.” She jokes “I am a cross between a marionette with bad strings and a human fainting goat, so it’s no surprise I paint resilient rescue animals and energy of regeneration in nature where nothing is wasted.” Antonia works in eglomise, oils, polymer stains, and digital painting since returning to Europe before Covid19. Her portraits of rescue animals have distinct visual intensity, a trait consistent of DeVia artists (Deaf View Image Art, a movement within Deaf Culture, People of the Eye). Past work was exhibited at Gallaudet University’s Dwyer Gallery, the Online Registry of Deaf Artists at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute of the Deaf, and private collections in the NW USA and the Netherlands, where every 5 yrs she conducts art therapy workshops at the European Congress for Sudden/Late Deafness at Stichting Plotsdoven. She works on commission through Antonia-Lindsey-Art.squarespace.com and by email at antonia50@gmail.com.