Joey Embers a Journey Home
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My Heart, an original oil painting by Joey Embers

My Heart

Oil on wood · Roaming House | A Journey Home

Have I made enough room?

Not for everyone else.
For me.

Enough room to notice what I am feeling before I decide what to do with it. Enough time to sit with what is uncomfortable without immediately trying to fix it, explain it, or push it aside.

The heart needs boundaries.

It also needs space. Space to breathe. Space to be uncertain. Space to change.

Showing up is only the beginning.

Engagement comes when I am willing to stay for a while—to listen, to question, to feel what is there, and sometimes to discover something I did not know was there at all.

Growth does not always happen by breaking through.
Sometimes it happens by making room.

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My Heart was donated in support of VIVID: The Art of Healing, benefiting Astra Mental Health & Recovery and mental-health and recovery services in our community.

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  • Portfolio
    • Plein Air Painting
    • Life Drawing and Painting
    • Rooms of the Interior >
      • Shedding Light
      • Fly on the Wall
      • An Open Window
      • Finding Balance
      • Chair in the Attic
      • Yellow Chair
      • Lamp and Yellow Chair
    • Roaming House: book project >
      • Book Project >
        • Finding my Path
        • Steal the Night
        • Light House
        • Around we Go
        • Family Garden
        • Alignment
        • Together
        • Waves of Change
        • Teach
        • Rise and Shine
        • My Heart
        • My Voice
        • Weather the Storm
        • Stand Tall
        • Tethered Beneath the Bloom
        • Echoes of the Sun
      • Practice in Place >
        • Red Barn Residency
  • The People’s Artist 2026
  • Exhibitions
    • Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre Exhibition
    • Stems Plein-Air 2024
    • Bold is Back
    • SVAFC Art Show 2024
    • Matryoshka Tattoo
    • | The Clayworks at Disability Supports
    • Roy G. Biv: Color Defined
  • About
    • Joey Embers | Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Press & Media
  • Join the Journey
    • Patreon
    • Saatchi Gallery
  • Contact
  • #GivingBack