Kwame
“I didn’t have any positive experiences with art growing up, so for years I held the story that I just wasn’t any good at art”
I paint because it brings me so much joy and for me it is a sacred healing act of reclaiming my right to be here, my right to express myself and to experience the fullness of my being. I didn't pick up a paintbrush until I was 20.
Before then I didn't have any positive experiences with art growing up, so for years I held the story that I just wasn't any good at art.
As a child I wasn't encouraged to express myself creatively in any way, but somewhere in the midst of surviving a traumatic childhood, I fell in love with writing and learned to paint pictures with words.
For years, I found comfort in writing.
If you had told me I would be painting, selling my paintings and helping others sell their paintings, later in life, I might have thought you were just a bit loony.