WELCOME TO MAKING YOUR LIFE MORE BEAUTIFUL! - IN EVERY WAY!

Canadian visual artist, author and vegan, Suzanne O'Callaghan, at home in 

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Welcome to my new blog!  For seven years I have been blogging about visual art and using it as a doorway to some of the wondrous things of life and learning or "the art of life".  I'm going to keep doing that at suzanneocallaghanartistsblog but I want to do something more.  

One of the great pleasures of life is also one of it's necessities, namely food - which is not to say that art is not one of life's pleasures also, for it very much is of course!  At easyartveganchic I am going to marry these two great pleasures in a new blog adventure! 

easyartveganchic will be a place you can visit to get yummy, good-looking vegan recipes that anyone can make and still get all the good vitamins, proteins and healthy fats you need from an animal-free, plant based diet.  In this little space I'll offer up the "ingredients" of art and food together and we'll have a bit of fun, from palette to plate. I'll share recipes for food and for making art with ideas from clever, very hip and chic friends and colleagues, too, from Canada and beyond.

I realize that embracing a vegetarian diet seems like it is a really hard thing in the beginning - and a vegan diet probably seems even tougher or even impossible.  When I am teaching painting (and life drawing) I do hear similar expressions of impossibility from students (of every age and background) to those I hear when I suggest that a vegan diet can not only change one's life for the better, it can turn around illnesses of every sort - physical, mental and emotional.  The fact is that you CAN recreate your life.  

If I had a dollar for every time a person says to me that they "cannot draw and/or paint a straight line" I would be wealthy.  The fact is that a straight line would make for a very boring piece of art (with apologies to New York School modernists).  Likewise, eating animals is not only tasteless and not cool, by comparison to a vegan diet it is also very boring as well.  Feeling weighty, slow, lethargic, etc while animal fats and tissues struggle to digest in your body is a boring (and really horrible) way to feel and live.  A vegan diet will change all that and you will, I promise, feel (and look) like a new, younger, more vital and more beautiful person.  Plus, as a personal feel good bonus, you'll be inviting others in the world to the table, for by passing up on bovine friends and other creatures with a hemoglobin you'll be enabling people who are food insecure to eat.  That's right - every time you say "no" to meat the water and grain that is necessary to growing cattle can nourish others in the world.  There's a tonne of other benefits and I'll post articles and interviews at regular intervals that will support, attest and inform of all this good stuff.

We begin with the knowledge that  you and I are doing something that is wonderful, for us and for the planet, when we make the choice to go vegan and embrace the art of living responsibly and well.

Today I invite you to join me in reinventing our lives in favour of beauty.  Inside and out.  YOU make my life more beautiful, that is certain, just by being out there for me to paint for and to.  So in this very moment let's begin by doing what good friends do after sharing art and the many other pleasures of our "one and precious life" - let's break bread together.  

With gratitude,
Suzanne