PaxArtist Is An Alabama Maker At Peace With Painting

By Michael Tomberlin

Pax means “peace” and no word is more appropriate for what art has brought to Sharon Heggeman.

The Mobile artist has been doing art professionally for only eight years but it’s what brought her to art that has made all of the difference.

“I didn’t start painting until I was much older, when my daughter was an artist and we were not getting along very well, so I let her teach me,” Heggeman said. “It was something that we had in common.”

Art brought peace.

“Pax is a Latin word meaning ‘peace’ and that’s really why I started painting.”

That was after Heggemen survived cancer.

“The name, Pax, came after I had finished treatment,” she said. “Pax was another part of that journey. After I finished my treatment and I had done really well, I was really pleased and thankful that I had come through.”

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