38 ATIM’S TOP 60 MASTERS 2023
ALICE HICKEY A
daenaarts@gmail.com
lice Daena is an artist who has spent a lifetime painting and creating. At the age of four, miss Daena decided she wanted to be an artist, and by the age of seven, she had sold her first painting at Stix Bear and Fuller in Saint Louis, Missouri. At seventeen, she worked in Saint Louis as a professional artist for Vincent Price and Rembrant studio’s painting oil portraits. She first entered the gallery scene in 1962 at the 5th Avenue art Gallery In Scottsdale. While in Scottsdale, miss Daena worked eight hours a day for five years, drawing technical renderings for Motorola in Phoenix while at the same time freelancing at home. Miss Daena claims it had been a very exciting and fulfilling experience as an artist. She says as long as she can create, she is happy. It has been what she considers therapy, along with just what she enjoys doing the most, which is watercolor painting. Miss Daena thinks she would be lost without the opportunity to create. “My goal is to be as creative as possible and to be able to please people with my art. My journey is not over; I will continue to create paintings and illustrate books as I enjoy my work. The thing I had wanted most of my life was to be a successful artist, and I believe I have accomplished that,” says Miss Daena, who is a third-time winner of the Easter Seal competition. She has published at least 500 illustrated books this year and has 7000 paintings she has created within the last fifteen
years. “I don’t give up, and I will keep trying as long as I can still paint.
“My goal in life is to be Creative. Being creative is what gives me happiness and joy. I truly believe God has designed me to be creative, and that is what he has given me to do. I work painting, illustrating, and creating books, not for fame or fortune but because I love creating. I believe it is essential to work a what I love doing”
