A professional artist and businesswoman
living
in Noblesville, Indiana, Bobbi K Samples
has something to say about dreams.
"If
I want to fly
like a bird with nothing but my arms to get me off the ground, that’s not a dream,
that’s just stupid! But too often
we confuse ourselves
and believe that very
doable dreams
are just stupid things that we can never really achieve."
When
Bobbi was a little girl, she dreamed of
having a couple of kids she could be proud of and a husband she could grow old
with. She also dreamed of being a professional dancer.
When
she was a professional dancer, she dreamed
of owning her own little dance studio and passing her knowledge on to other
dreamers-in-training.
When
she owned her own dance studio, she began to think
about being a businesswoman and making her mark in the corporate world.
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Bobbi being interviewed on WIBC in Indianapolis |
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Alpha Sigma Alpha's national magazine,
Phoenix,
has featured Bobbi's story and her commissioned painting, Kindred
Spirits. |
After starting her own consulting business, then selling it six years later,
she decided to pursue a silly dream that she
was reluctant to even admit having—being a painter of life.
At
the age of 48 Bobbi picked-up a paint brush for the first time and began to
choreograph colors and emotions onto canvas in a way that surprised even her. As
she studied under Maggie Shively, she painted. And
painted.
In
less than eighteen months Bobbi
completed dozens of oil paintings and her work was
selected to be displayed at the Penrod Arts Fair in Indianapolis, the Indiana
Festival at Conner Prairie, the Brick Street Gallery Art Walk in the artists’
village of Zionsville, and the Indianapolis Home Show. She has
sold originals,
fulfilled commissioned pieces,
donated works to charities, has a line of
greeting cards featuring her work, and has been featured in a national magazine.
But it was just a silly dream.
In
the first few months of Bobbi’s adventures in painting, her grown
son returned
from a tour in Afghanistan and her daughter
became a Black Hawk helicopter
pilot. And, Bobbi celebrated her
30th Wedding Anniversary by taking her husband John to Hawaii, where she
painted some more.
Since then, Bobbi and John have celebrated their 35th Anniversary, their
daughter has had tours in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait, and Bobbi and her
son have started two new businesses, including an art gallery and restaurant
that served the community for three years in downtown Noblesville
Don’t ever talk to Bobbi about silly dreams; to her it’s either silly or it’s a
dream. She’ll tell you that what makes it one or the other is what
the
dreamer
does
about it.
If you are interested in displaying
BobbiK's art in your business, we can do business.
If you want a set of
greeting cards
featuring BobbiK's art, we can do that, too.
Contact me at
JohnW@JSam.com for more information about these works.
Or, contact Bobbi directly:
BobbiK@BobbiK.com
The best is yet to
come, but it's been an amazing start already.
-BobbiK's biggest fan,
JSam the
Husband
