🎨 What I Know for Sure About Making Art
- treehousestudioart4
- Aug 6
- 2 min read
After years of creating, experimenting, and learning to trust my voice as an artist, I’ve come to realize: making art is less about knowing and more about remembering.
I don’t always know what I’m painting when I begin. Most days, I start with just a feeling—a color, a rhythm, a whisper of something trying to be heard. And yet, through this intuitive, layered process, I’ve discovered a few things I do know for sure.
What I Know for Sure about Making Art...
Making art will ask you to tell the truth. It will push you past what feels comfortable. It will ask you to show up, even when you’re not ready. And if you’re willing to stay in the discomfort, it will reflect you back to yourself.
My work is deeply rooted in emotion, transformation, and personal narrative. I create intuitive abstract paintings using acrylics, collage, and mixed media. Through layers of color, texture, linework, and symbolism, I aim to explore the space between vulnerability and resilience. Each piece is a conversation—a call and response between what I feel and what the canvas reveals.
In my current series, DIG: Excavating the Self, I’ve been reflecting on identity, legacy, and the buried stories we carry. It’s raw, layered work—visually and emotionally. The process is never linear. It’s messy, sacred, and often full of surprises.
But here’s another thing I know: Art doesn’t come from certainty. It comes from curiosity. From courage. From the willingness to not know and keep going anyway.
Some days, the greatest success is simply that I didn’t give up. Other days, it’s finding one moment of clarity in the chaos—a mark that feels true, a layer that clicks into place.
As an artist, I believe in the power of creative expression to connect us—to ourselves, to each other, and to something greater. My goal isn’t just to make something beautiful—it’s to make something meaningful.
Whether you’re a collector, curator, fellow artist, or simply someone who feels deeply, I hope my work invites you into your own exploration. Your own excavation.
Because what I know for sure is this:
When we dig deep, we don’t just find art. We find ourselves.
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