My sister passed away from cancer many years ago.

In every painting she made, she used thick, bold black lines. Those lines were her way of expressing the disease that was slowly taking her. What I didn’t understand at the time is that she was also painting her own goodbye.

In 2005, for my 37th birthday, she gave me one of her paintings. On the back she wrote a deeply loving message: “For my big and little brother, the very, very, very best brother. With all my love, your sister.”

Since the day she gave it to me, this painting, and several others , have refused to stay on my wall. No matter what kind of hooks, nails or systems I used, they kept falling down. Sometimes they fell the very same day I hung them. Last week one fell again, it scared me as hell.

I finally heard the message.

My sister doesn’t want her black lines, her symbol of suffering, permanently hanging in my house. She doesn’t want me to live with a daily reminder of her pain.

So I’ve decided to set her art free.

Today I’m sharing my birthday present with you (scroll down).

You can find all of her astonishing paintings in high resolution HERE.

They are completely free to download and use for any creative project you want, album covers, posters, book illustrations, digital art, logos, exhibitions, tattoos… anything.

All I ask is that you kindly link back to messagefromone.blog so others can also discover her beautiful work.

Her art was never meant to be locked away on one man’s wall. It was meant to travel, to inspire, to be seen.

If these paintings speak to you, please take them. Use them. Share them with the world.

Let her black lines live on, not as a symbol of pain, but as a symbol of her creativity, her love, and her spirit.

Thank you for helping her art find new homes.