Valerie Dowdy is a visual artist living in Southwest Virginia, where she is currently developing a new body of paintings that incorporate the intricate details taken from her art journal drawings and fusing them with a surrealistic stylism. It is also from these diaries that "Abstract Expressions" is produced, by literally tearing pages from her journals, Valerie composed this coloring book in hopes of helping others find healing, focus, relaxation as they (re)connect with their own inner creativity.