Today I received two new paintings from international artist @th3-0bjectivist 'Xylania's Garden' and 'Sub-Light Alley' it came all the way from North Carolina, USA to Wales in the UK and I couldn't be happier.
I've collected original art for a few years and I've worked as a professional artist for more than forty years and over that time one of the things I've discovered is that people can be quite snobbish about art. Some of the comments I've had 'but can you do proper painting?' meaning can I paint things to look like a photograph of the original? Yes, I can, but I find it dull and tedious.
Another thing I've come across, particularly when I paint abstract, 'I don't understand it' What's to understand? Do you like it? Does it make you feel something? Then it's done its job.
If you have a message to get across, put the words right there in the painting, job done.
Paint in metaphors, only you will know what you're trying to say but that doesn't matter, someone will reinterpret it anyway, but they'll love it too.
I've painted watercolour landscapes, naive fairytale images, acrylic portraits, collage, monoprint, assemblage art and photography, I've been art director on a few music videos and my point is this, just create, find a style you enjoy and make art, your people will find you but more importantly, let it out, it's great therapy and you'll fill your system with dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and oxytocin, you'll free yourself from anxiety during the process which is a form of mindfulness, there are no downsides to creating art, just do it.
By the way, I absolutely bloody love art by @th3-0bjectivist check him out and buy some for yourself ! XX
