Today we’d like to introduce you to Victoria Peloubet.
Hi Victoria, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I am a native Texan and spent most of my life in the Katy-Houston area, currently, I live in Bellville, Texas about an hour outside of Katy. I have been doing art for almost 20 years off and on as a hobby but only last year started to make it a career.
I have always been different never felt that I fit in except with a few people. Later I found out I was ADHD which is part of the neurodivergent umbrella.
I discovered my art Junior year of high school (2003) in the form of doodles. My signature eye has been there from the get go. Even when I went through college my doodles were all over my papers. I later learned that these doodles were extremely beneficial for me due to my ADHD equivalent to a fidget toy.
My family and friends have been my biggest supporters especially my mom. I don’t know where I would be without them literally no clue. They are my rock my motivation to keep plunging forward. I really want to make them proud.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
My road is like a country dirt road after a heavy rain shower with some of the biggest potholes you’ve seen. Rough. Messy.
I am a domestic violence survivor. I was able to escape in 2008 because my parents came and rescued me. I now speak with other survivors as a form of healing and I occasionally speak out on certain issues.
In 2010 I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and became physically disabled a few years ago
Being ADHD also complicates my road being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world isn’t easy. It’s like being a left-handed brain person trying to live in a world designed and set up for right-handed brain people. I and other neuro divergents have to find ways to work around how the world is set up and designed simply because we process information differently.
These are just a few of the challenges I’ve had to face over the years.
So like I said rough messy. These “muddy potholes” do occasionally make it into my art. I guess that’s my way of filling them in and smoothing out my road. I am able to now channel everything I’ve gone through into my art. A way for my brain to process everything since it does process information differently this is how it is choosing to process what I have gone through. Through pattern work.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I specialize in abstract art. I am known for my twisting turning checkerboard patterns as well as putting at least one eye in most of my pieces there are a few that don’t have any eyes.
Ninety-nine percent of my work is free hand starting with a pencil and then going over that with ink. I don’t plan out my designs zero. My pattern work is just what comes out of my pencil.
I do work in themes and series. As an ADHD artist. I’ve learned to keep several sketchbooks around. I have three, two were given to me by my sister-in-law. I like those two best because she picked out ones with amazing paper inside. When I need to bounce from workpiece I’m working on. I flip over to one of those. Then I don’t create a backlog of artwork. I learn this my first year of my art career the hard way. Now I write out potential ideas instead of sketching them.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
I took an odd route I did a donate your art route rather than sell your art route. I started by doing the Sketchbook Project. I spent 10 months on 32 pages and 2 covers some extremely detailed and mailed it off.
To spend that amount of time and resources I think was a huge risk but it has paid off I learned many things that will help me down the line and networked with people because of it.
Sadly The Sketchbook Project suffered a major fire recently and some of the sketchbooks were destroyed. It is a major loss for such a beautiful project they do.
Pricing:
- $50 for a 1st edition print only 100 of these of each of my pieces will be available and each edition will have a unique part on the back that the others will not.
- Up to $25 for unsigned prints depending on size
- $100 for 5×7 piece
- $250-$300 for small repurposed item painting
- $300 for a 9×12 piece
Contact Info:
- Instagram: www.Instagram.com/vic_de_chabrier_art
Image Credits
Rob Greer (Rob Greer Photography)
