Paintings by Heather Bolinder
Rachael
The newest scar looks like a 10-inch zipper starting from the base of my skull down towards my shoulders and the muscles around it ache like crazy. But my permanent nerve pain feels like bees stinging the top left side of my head.
Beth’s Chronic Lyme Disease
Beth, an 18 years old suffers with Chronic Lyme Disease. This is when her life turned upside down.
Hip Bullet
The painting below is inspired by Christine, who’s chronic pain is in her hip. Her pain feels like a bullet going through her hip, shattering the bones causing fire like pain!
Tooth Ache
Somebody asked me what chronic pain felt like. I said ever had a terrible tooth ache that won’t go away. Welcome to chronic pain.
The Migraine
It was one of those days and I had a bad Migraine. The blue face is how nausea I felt and I was in too much pain to cry. The skeleton is how dark and miserable I felt, but the c-clamp keeps tightening.
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Painting Pain Art Gallery – Three
Breast Cancer Mastectomy I am a woman thru and thru. I am not defined by the size of my breast. I am sexy with an A cup or a D cup. I am sexy even with only 1 breast. I feel beautiful, therefore I am beautiful. A womans beauty comes from within and not from what is on the outside. I am beautiful, see me shine, I still have one left behind, a woman I am until the end, even though I am not a ten, my beauty is here, it's now within, I am a woman till the Read More…
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Painting Pain Art Gallery – One
Paintings by Heather Bolinder Rachael The newest scar looks like a 10-inch zipper starting from the base of my skull down towards my shoulders and the muscles around it ache like crazy. But my permanent nerve pain feels like bees stinging the top left side of my head. Beth's Chronic Lyme Disease Beth, an 18 years old suffers with Chronic Lyme Disease. This is when her life turned upside down. Hip Bullet The painting Read More…
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Painting Pain Art Gallery – Two
Paintings by Heather Bolinder Crushing Spine This was my very first pain painting. This is how my back feels, like two hammers are crushing down hard on it! Pins and Needles Many back pain patients get this feeling in their legs if they have a nerve/disc issues. Feels like the pins and needles are stabbing you all over your legs! Bob's Stroke This painting was inspired by a chronic pain patient, that I Read More…
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Painting Pain
Hi, my name is Heather Bolinder and I am a chronic pain patient. I am a native Cape Codder from Massachusetts and I was a very active person, involved in volunteering, founder of the Harwich Community Playground, a member of the Cape Cod Art Association and Harwich Artist Guild. I worked as a volunteer E.M.T in Colorado, as well as a private duty nurse’s aid and raised two beautiful children. I graduated from Mount Ida College with a degree in Fine Arts and went on to teach art at a local studio as well as a professional artist, which is Read More…
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