Surrender by Erika Masterson
God is doing something amazing right now, a new thing. It’s a mystery that will reveal itself in his timing. I will be patient.
Transitioning with my art is very much like dying. Given that my art is a reflection of my heart, this is a heart change. This old thing has passed away to make room for a new thing. This is growth. Growing pains sometimes hurt.
A rose bush needs to be pruned of all the flowers that aren’t thriving. The bush looks all chopped up, but in time the roses flourish to extraordinary beauty.
Pruning is love of the deepest kind. Letting the pruner do his work is total surrender...”
Erika Masterson 2019
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.”
John 15:1-2
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Isiah 43:18-19
Erika Masterson is a Fine Art Photographer, living her dream between two worlds, a lakeside cabin tucked in the Southern Appalachian mountains and a quiet beach town on Florida’s east coast.Erika and her husband Ed have 4 children and one granddaughter. Her children are often seen in her artistic works.
She received her degree in photography from the Southeastern Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1990. In 1999 opened her own commercial portrait business and has been working the past 20+ years in California and Florida.
In 2012 Erika expanded her Art including many exhibits and awards. Her most recent accolades; Solo Exhibition Soho Gallery New York; the Co-Jurors Choice award by Joyce Tenneson under the theme “The Intimate Portrait”; She was chosen as a Julia Margaret Cameron finalist for her series “A Message for my Daughter” and was selected as Black and White Magazine’s Portfolio Spotlight winner for her series Sara’s Sojourn.
Her quiet and soulful images have been published in numerous magazines such as Black and White Magazine 2014 & 2017, Victoria Magazine 2000 & 2016, Silvershotz Magazine, Shots Magazine, 5×5 Magazine, Bella Grace Magazine, Raine, Shadow & Light and In-Style Magazine. Erika recently has her images being sold around the world and on greeting cards with Palm Press and book covers. She has also self-published 4 books with her series of work.
