“Emerging” as an Artist…

I have that feeling burning inside me…right now I need to look at paintings, I need to paint. It’s hard to describe, unless you know it well. It’s an energy, an emotion. It’s the act of painting, putting paint to canvas and mark-making. Watching as the paint moves and behaves. As a feeling of expression nothing can come close for me, not a singular limited moment of capturing a photo, not a solitary moment of listening to a song, not a tortured passage of personal writing; for me nothing is like the process of creating a picture, of seeing it form. Of the tiny dash of paint that creates a harmonious balance. And of that moment when I know to stop painting.