Why I have chosen painting

For many years I have been dealing with painting. It is not something I must do for a living. I don't treat it as a source of income. I treat it as a pleasure. It is something sensual when you stand in front of a wooden board and feel the touch of paint on your fingers. Being somebody who creates - This is what I have chosen. Apart from sensuality what attracts me the most is great freedom which gives me painting. I feel that art gave me that pleasure to be who I want to be, not better or worse, be myself. Many events deterred me from painting like going on those artistic meetings where everybody paint a given topic listening to the teacher who corrects them harshly. I wasn't good at it and resented it immensly. Art is freedom to me. It is not wrong to use paint like a coloured pencil and draw with it. I don't see anything wrong with it and many times in my school years I was corrected for that. To me it is ridiculous, but school is for shaping you the way the educational system requires. There is no other way and those who rebel are suppressed.

Below You can admire one of my thesis paintings showing Amsterdam, brownish Amsterdam. 50x70 cm, on a wooden board, oil paints.

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