DorotaChiomaArt (@beyondthebrushdc)

The Grace of Bending An exploration of vulnerability, adaptability and the quiet strength of yielding. A solitary flower bows beneath an unseen weight, its dark petals delicately outlined in gold. Around it, sweeping black lines rise, curve and intersect, suggesting movement, resistance and the…

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Not Yet, But Becoming A meditation on the quiet certainty of becoming. Three unopened forms rise from a dense, fractured ground, carrying colour upward into open space. They have not yet reached their fullest expression. They remain enclosed, suspended somewhere between what they were and what…

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Reaching Beyond Three red blooms extend into a turquoise expanse, carried by pale stems that bend and branch across the canvas. Fine gold outlines trace their irregular edges, while scattered white marks suggest a space alive with possibility. Rooted in Dorota Chioma’s lived experience of bipolar…

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What Remains Standing A meditation on endurance after the storm. From a dense and tangled landscape, three slender forms rise. Their stems are dark and weathered, their heads imperfect and scarred, yet they remain upright. They do not bloom with exuberance. Their strength is quieter than that…

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I Have Wings, But I’m Sitting A meditation on potential, rest, and the quiet refusal to perform. A winged figure sits within an expanse of luminous green. The body is fragmented and partially concealed, emerging from layers of dark organic marks as though discovered rather than deliberately…

Carried A meditation on surrendering to what holds us. A solitary figure drifts through an expanse of luminous green, untethered from the ground beneath it. The lower body remains delicately defined, while the upper form dissolves into a dense constellation of dark marks, blurring the boundary…

Still Going A meditation on endurance when strength is no longer abundant. A solitary figure bends beneath an immense dark weight. Hunched forward, almost absorbed into the mass surrounding them, they grip a slender stick for support. There is no triumphant posture, no suggestion of effortless…

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Bowing Without Breaking There are moments when resilience no longer resembles strength. It becomes a quiet act of endurance, a body bent beneath the weight of what it can no longer carry upright. Bowing Without Breaking explores the fragile boundary between exhaustion and surrender. Against a…

Sitting With the Fire There comes a moment when fighting the fire becomes more exhausting than sitting with it. Sitting With the Fire explores the possibility of finding stillness within emotional intensity. Against a turbulent landscape of burning oranges, reds and yellows, a solitary figure sits…

Are you living between extremes — and wondering if you will survive them? Between the Avalanche and the Ashes is a raw, fearless memoir for anyone who has ever burned too bright, crashed too hard, and somehow found the courage to keep going. Written by an artist living with bipolar disorder, this…

The Space I Hold A figure stretches across a field of vivid yellow and green. Its edges are clear in places and blurred in others, as though the body is trying to find its shape while energy moves through it. The open space within the figure feels as present as the figure itself. The Space I Hold…

Held in the Storm A meditation on vulnerability, self-protection, and surviving inner turbulence. A curled figure occupies the lower half of the canvas, gathered inward beneath a heavy field of dark, fractured forms. The body appears both exposed and protected, held within a space that feels…

Polarities – Shades of Bipolar, is a testimony of living with bipolar affective disorder. Author's thoughts are intertwined with poetry and art pieces she has created along the way on this bumpy journey. The book illustrates a complex illness, and struggles associated. It is not a self-help book…

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Unapologetic A meditation on presence, self-possession, and refusing to diminish what one carries. A dark, commanding figure occupies the canvas against a vivid field of pink, its body grounded while the upper form expands into a dramatic, uncertain silhouette. What rises from the figure may be…

Where I Rest Two faceless figures lean together, their closeness expressed through the simple contact of their heads. Against a vivid pink background that gradually softens into white, this small gesture becomes a place of rest. Where I Rest explores the trust involved in allowing another person…

Found in the Colour Found in the Colour explores the moment a human presence emerges from abstraction — not placed deliberately within the landscape, but discovered there. Layers of vivid colour move across the surface with little concern for representation. Within this movement, a figure begins…

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What Connect Us Bright, individual forms sit within a web of branching black lines. Some seem close enough to touch; others are held apart by the spaces between them. Yet every line travels onward, joining one part of the painting to another. What Connect Us reflects on the relationships we carry…