A professional artist and businesswoman
living
in Noblesville, Indiana, Bobbi K Samples
has something to say about dreams.
"If
I want to fly
like a bird with nothing but my arms to get me off the ground, that’s not a dream,
that’s just stupid! But too often
we confuse ourselves
and believe that very
doable dreams
are just stupid things that we can never really achieve."
When
Bobbi was a little girl, she dreamed of
having a couple of kids she could be proud of and a husband she could grow old
with. She also dreamed of being a professional dancer.
When
she was a professional dancer, she dreamed
of owning her own little dance studio and passing her knowledge on to other
dreamers-in-training.
When
she owned her own dance studio, she began to think
about being a businesswoman and making her mark in the corporate world.
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Bobbi being interviewed on WIBC in Indianapolis |
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Alpha Sigma Alpha's national magazine, Phoenix,
has featured Bobbi's story and her
commissioned painting, Kindred Spirits. |
After starting her own consulting business, then selling it six years later,
she decided to pursue a silly dream that she
was reluctant to even admit having—being a painter of life.
At
the age of 48 Bobbi picked-up a paint brush for the first time and began to
choreograph colors and emotions onto canvas in a way that surprised even her. As
she studied under Maggie Shively, she painted. And
painted.
Her husband came up with "Bekis" for the name of her new art company
using her initials wrapped around a couple of vowels.
BekisArt.com was born and
another dream
began
to take on color.
In
less than eighteen months Bobbi
completed dozens of oil paintings and her work was
selected to be displayed at the Penrod Arts Fair in Indianapolis, the Indiana
Festival at Conner Prairie, the Brick Street Gallery Art Walk in the artists’
village of Zionsville, and the Indianapolis Home Show. She has
sold originals,
fulfilled commissioned pieces,
donated works to charities, has a line of
greeting cards featuring her work, and has been featured in a national magazine.
But it was just a silly dream.
In
the first few months of Bobbi’s adventures in painting, her grown
son returned
from a tour in Afghanistan and her daughter
became a Black Hawk helicopter
pilot. And, Bobbi celebrated her
30th Wedding Anniversary by taking her husband John to Hawaii, where she
painted some more.
Don’t ever talk to Bobbi about silly dreams; to her it’s either silly or it’s a
dream. She’ll tell you that what makes it one or the other is what
the
dreamer
does
about it.
So
what's Bobbi dreaming about now? She has opened an art gallery on the square in
Noblesville where she can share the
walls with other local artists. It has become a
gathering place for experienced and new, old and young, teachers and
students, painters and lookers, buyers and sellers,
dreamers and doers, and everyone else. She calls it
The Artist's Vineyard,
and she hopes you will come by soon for dinner and to enjoy the art.
There she goes again!
If you are
interested in displaying
BobbiK's art in your business, we can do business.
If you want a set of
greeting cards
featuring BobbiK's art, we can do that, too.
All
prices of originals are unframed,
unless otherwise specified.
Contact me at
JSam@BekisArt.com for information about these works. Or, contact Bobbi K directly: Bobbi@TheArtistsVineyard.com.
The best is yet to
come, but it's been an amazing start already.
-BobbiK's biggest fan,
JSam the
Husband
P.S. Bobbi is a member of the Indianapolis Art
Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Noblesville and Indiana Chambers of Commerce and is active at East 91st Street Christian Church.
