Light and Shadow: An Artist's Awakening

What does it take to become an artist? What does it take to put raw paint on a canvas and create something that can stir the heart and lift the spirit?That is the essential question at the heart of this stunning and insightful novel. It traces the evolution of Norman a dentist perfectly able to fill a tooth or craft a crown but whose dreams of becoming of a great artist are stymied by his emotional rigidity and his by the numbers dentist mindset. But then out of the blue a furious hurricane sweeps into Normans well-ordered life in the form an ornery cantankerous foul-mouthed artist and teacher named Kelly. The man is repulsive and abusive free-spirited and excessive - and exactly what Normans needs: a mentor who reaches deep inside Norman and brings forth the artist just waiting to be born.