I love drawing and I love painting. This is my primary reason for doing it. I LOVE IT! It nourishes me and teaches me. It is my meditation.
I write this statement reluctantly however because it goes against what I believe about painting (and drawing). For me paintings are visual things – objects to be viewed and experienced as much as possible through the visual sense. From there it should go straight to the heart, by-passing the intellect. The intellect? Well it can’t be helped sometimes I guess; it’s such a dominant aspect of most of our natures but let’s not encourage it.

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