Embracing my own “messiness”

Early in my art career, I often stopped myself in the midst of the creative process, calling myself out for my messiness”— both in the work I was producing and in the studio where I was producing it. I would hear the parental voice chastising me for “making a mess.” Perhaps that it why I embraced watercolors after my 20-year art hiatus… it was easy to clean up. But as I have matured, both as a person and as an artist, I realize that what I once disparaged as “messiness” can be embraced as a sign of my creative “exuberance” and, it is in fact that quality which makes my work exciting and unique. When I lose myself in the creative process and feel the abandon is often when my paintings are most successful, and the intentional splatter has become somewhat of my trademark. Now, to clean up my studio...(temporarily).