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With Time Short, a Passion to Paint


A year and a half ago, Cordula Volkening’s doctors gave her a grim diagnosis: brain cancer. Still, having been told that she might have a year to live, she decided to embark on a career as a painter. Ms. Volkening, a 52-year-old mother of two from Brooklyn, said she thinks of painting as a coping mechanism. She considered painting her passion years ago as an art student in Germany before immigrating to Brooklyn and starting her own interior construction design business. She found that paint

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