Life is an ongoing series of miracles. Everyone has something to be thankful for or someone they should they should be saying 'thank you' to. Prayers, large and small, are answered daily, sometimes without us even knowing. Ex Votos are fine art offerings commissioned as the result of an answered prayer and displayed to acknowledge an appreciation for it having happened. Today, they are most widely known as the folk art works created on tin and found in shrines across Mexico.

Each Ex Votos celebrates the exceptional nature of the common and the uncommon: friendship, love, life, family and self. They recognize the divine nature of those things. This collection is styled with the look of the Mexican tin-paneled works and they are designed to be hung in groupings. As gifts, they are the perfect message at the perfect time. Life is full of blessings

These little artworks are painted out of gratitude for the miracles, protection and prayers answered not only in my life, but for many of us. In conceiving these, it didn’t seem that I was illustrating ideas, but sharing and exchanging them. Some are events that have happened in my life. Others are ideas that have been shared with me. Every mother has experienced the elation of holding her child for the first time and savoring that new-born baby smell. Each time I see 'Never Felt Joy Like That Before,' it is a chance to savor that feeling again and say 'thank you' for letting me experience this miracle. - CB