[accessibleimage] Blind Images
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- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:08:56 +0200
*http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/062906/tp7ew3.htm?date=062906&story=tp7ew3.htm
Blind Images seizes new studio*
ENGLEWOOD -- Jeanne Cadman, an Englewood artist and owner of Blind
Images, is legally blind, but when it came to finding an art studio, she
knew the perfect place when she found it.
"It's behind Izzi's Antiques," Cadman said. "I have one of the cottages
in the back. It's going to be a studio cottage and I'll have my art on
display there. I'm trying to get open for July 1."
Cadman recently moved out of the Emporium on West Dearborn Street in
Englewood, and has now set up shop at 30 Old Englewood Road in unit A.
Her new backdrop is Lemon Bay, and her studio is framed by majestic oak
trees, behind Izzi's, which is occupying an old 1940s cracker home.
"It's so nice and so conducive to painting," Cadman said, "And the price
was right. I can paint any place I want on the property."
Cadman said with her new move, however, she is making a distinct change
in the running of her business.
"It will be a little different," she said. "I'm not going to take in
other works."
Cadman said she'll still carry one artist's jewelry and hand puppets as
she has traditionally offered in the past.
Other changes include painting all day and leaving the administrative
duties at home.
"I got too involved in the business end of it," Cadman said. "It was a
big distraction from painting. I need to concentrate on what I want to
do. I need to paint with the eyesight I still have left."
While still in high school Cadman was diagnosed with retinitis
pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease that ultimately causes total and
permanent blindness.
Her blindness, she said, caused her to become very depressed, and left
her unemployed.
But through a program called "Rethinking Unemployment," a Division of
Blind Services initiative, Cadman's drive returned.
And with her aspirations, Cadman took ownership of a small art gallery
housed in the Emporium.
Cadman, who can only see a small portion of the canvas at a time,
continues to be involved in fund raising efforts for other visually
impaired related organizations.
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