| Changing Lives | | When you shop handmade, you support artisans like Telma Morais, a highly-original, talented painter and sculptor from Brazil |  | | | Telma Morais believes in angels.
Despite the difficulties she has faced in her life, her faith has never wavered, and she finds strength in every personal challenge she overcomes. “Everything that happens is to make us better people,” she says. “Happiness, looking for humor and putting it in everything that I see and do — I want to convey this in my art.”
The reason she paints angels and Madonnas in a youthful naif style is because they embody the pure and simple “sensations of peace and harmony” that she feels when she is painting. And painting is no small feat for her. Because of physical limitations, Telma says she is often “lying with the canvas on my thorax for reasons of health.”
With her background in education — working with underprivileged children in extreme poverty — and writing (two children’s books about the environment, as well as a romance novel), Telma is adept at channeling her passions into creative forms of expression.
This Artisan Day, we’re happy to feature her work, along with so many other talented creators across the globe, whose handmade crafts delight, inspire and uplift us. | | | | | | | | |
