You can totally see life through art through the way that lights hitting things. I just

think it's neat how God intertwines all of that because he is the ultimate artist. It's just so

cool. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests share how God met them in their broken places

and through spending time in him,

they began to see healing.

Visual artist and children's book author Amy Cavaleris

and contemporary Christian music artist Austin French.

If you walk into a Target store or small boutique, chances are you may see something painted by Amy Caballeris.

Amy shares how she learned to express herself for art from an early age, how she faced a season of

unexpected loneliness and depression, and about the visual art she does today,

often inspired by the wonder filled worldview of her three little girls.

Hello, I'm Amy Cavaleris. I am a full-time fine artist and children's book, author, an illustrator for Harper Collins Christian publishing.

Now, as our family is growing, I get to paint from home with my babies on my lap and sell my work worldwide in

some really wonderful stores like anthropology, Target, some smaller boutiques etc.

I laugh now because years ago my family would say that in my mind I kind of lived in like this like movie world like this dream world

You know I was a good student but I was always daydreaming and now I get to create those daydreams for a living.

So it's just, it's really fun for me.

I actually have a little bit of both my parents and me.

My father was very entrepreneurial, my mother was an art teacher for 30 years.

So I guess I have a little piece of each of them

just from watching them work in their example,

how they were treating others,

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