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When she is eighteen, Hanneke Boot discovers that painting with her mouth is easier for her than painting with her hands. Born with a muscle disease, she's experienced a host of challenges. But she's found her calling in art and paints everything: views, landscapes, mills, and portraits. In Ain't No Mountain High Enough, she shares her story.
Boot narrates how being born with a physical disability guarantees you will run into obstacles for life. But she tells how those obstacles become challenges, and they can be overcome through humor and by exploiting your strongest talent.
Beginning in January of 2015 and running through June of 2018, Boot documents her feelings, thoughts, and activities in a diary format which she shares in Ain't No Mountain High Enough. It offers insight into one woman's challenges with a disability while giving inspiration to others facing the same difficulties.
About the author
After finishing secondary school, Hanneke Boot felt an increasing need to develop her drawing and writing skills and to give expression through drawing and writing to what was going on inside her. Unfortunately, she discovered that a muscle disease leading to physical disability meant that she was unable to satisfy the requirements of an academy of art and to complete the number of works she would have had to create there. As an alternative, she followed a correspondence course in drawing, finishing with a diploma in drawing. In addition, she attended various painting courses and workshops in order to learn the technique of mouth painting. Though all these teaching lessons, courses and training activities, Hanneke Boot has acquired a wide range of techniques. This allowed her to attend a course in far-eastern water color techniques and a correspondence course in psychology. She hopes to be able to apply this knowledge creatively to drawing, painting and writing.
