Biography - Jaime Lee Kirchner
Dear Reader,
My name is Jaime. I was born in Nuremburg Germany with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. This was a clear message from the universe that, in my little life, there would be a few 'hang ups’ so to speak.
I’ve navigated the worst of these hang-ups by escaping into magical worlds without rules through any form of 'art' I could get my hands on. Painting, drawing, poetry, tap dance, singing, music, movie musicals, all things graced by Vivian Leigh and all things imaged by J.R.R. Tolkien.
I was always moved by the mystical and mysterious, the dark side of things, emotional things, the truth ... usually the ugly truth. As a child my natural connection to the metaphysical world and enchanted possibilities was considered "crazy" or stupid. I observed with great sadness and confusion that most people chose instead to cling to a life of fear, formula, and mediocrity. I was lucky enough to find an outlet for my spritited side through performing at the Roxy Theater in Clarksville Tennessee where I grew up. Acting would become my main focus and my profession as well as a great compromise. An outlet where I could express my truer self, as well as a vocation acceptable enough in a ridged, disenchanted world. I hid my artwork not out of shyness but out of wanting to protect its sacredness. It was in my artwork that I was able to be truly free to wander through my emotions and commune with all the unseen forces of light and relate to something bigger than myself.
I present my visual works of “art” here for the first time. They are extensions of my musings with light and love and pain. They are the remains of memories of my childhood and sketches of distant dreams. At my best, I commune with God, or Love or infinite possibility, however you like to name the magic that creates worlds, and a picture comes through. My brush and my hands get to tango and dance and wrestle with it into a painting, of which hopefully inspires the viewer to remember their own connection to unexplored worlds without and within. Lastly, I leave you with this to ponder from the truest of dreamers ...
" Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have tea first?" ...J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan