So I’m entering some of my painting into this juried art show and I have to come up with this statement about me as a painter…this is what I got so far.

Artist’s statement
I was born to paint, I was born to create, It’s the only thing I do not have to think about I can just do. It comes so natural to me. When I poor the turpentine into a jar get out my old brushes put the paint on my palette it comes automatic .I am not that good at taking tests, writing essays, I really do suck at math and science is hard to me to understand but I can paint. I paint my raw passionate emotion and I paint what I know. There are recurring themes and some patterns in my work, for example I paint a lot about substance abuse in my work because I am a recovering alcoholic addict. I lot of my paintings are reflections on past or current emotional personal experiences. I feel things so strongly I have to paint some of my excess emotion out onto a canvas for my own sanity. I have this need to paint I make art to live and live to make good art.