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Welcome to a long-overdue new artwork drop. I’m still amazed anytime I see self-taught artist and mother of three Reneesha Mccoy create new works, I’m exhausted just thinking about it. But she continues to amaze and create, seemingly in new and different, calming, and peaceful ways. Only eleven are currently available, these acrylic on canvas works measure 6 inches by 8 inches and could be yours today!

Reneesha McCoy is a self-taught artist who began her artistic practice in 2019, living and working in North Carolina. She works primarily in acrylics and oil pastels, though in some of her works, you’ll notice the additional exploration of various mediums like colored pencil, ink, and paint markers.

A principal theme in Reneesha’s work is her celebration of the consequences of life and nature in relation to the female body, often in abstracted ways. She uses her personal experience to highlight the internal and external effects of childbirth, particularly the physical changes that occur from breastfeeding.  

Reneesha Mccoy on How Motherhood Reinvigorated Her Art

Reneesha’s artistic process involves studying the anatomy of the female form and challenging herself to present her interpretation in new and conceptual ways.  

See more works by Reneesha McCoy

And see her work in person in Des Moines, Iowa at The Dust Collective, a FolkArtwork Collective Pop-Up Exhibit taking place on Saturday, April 26th from 11:00am – 2:00pm.

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About the FolkArtwork Collective

It brings me great pleasure to introduce the FolkArtwork Collective — a fantastic group of self-taught and emerging artists from across the globe. Jackie Bradshaw, Esteban Whiteside, Sarah Lee, and Noel Hatfield are the first artists to bring original artwork directly to the FolkArtwork web store on both FolkArtwork.art/shop and directly on Instagram. I am very pleased to also add Reneesha Mccoy, Jordan Sullivan, Gabrielle K Brown, Christopher Bame, Max Kuhn, Ben Gardner and in 2024, Melody Jean Moulton, Dinah Hanson-Carrillo, Lindsay Carraway, Kathy Edwards Hayslett, Lorena Eliasen, and Mike Combs to the collective.

After four years of running this account, sharing daily art by great outsider and self-taught artists who are no longer with us, I am thrilled to share this space with current artists to assist in their artistic journey and bring their artwork to the masses and maybe to a home near you.

I am excited to see FolkArtwork evolve and grow. It will continue to share daily outsider artwork by some of the greatest artists ever, pictures from travels across the country, visiting unknown and hidden art environments, and now offering original artwork for sale.