Brochure piece

This week I got my first professional writing job. My assignment was to create an advertisement for an underground painter who doesn't speak fluent English. Here's the final product: 

Painting has been a passion of mine ever since I was a child. At first it was the only way I could effectively display my emotions and tell the story of who I was, but as time went by, it only left me empty. I realized that a story's only purpose is to be shared, and without an audience, it was useless. I wanted my work to connect with people the way that my words couldn't. I wanted it to reach out and prod people's emotions.

I begin each series of paintings with a piece of my story. The sources of my inspiration range from sights and sounds that I have personally experienced to things that my mind has conjured up during times of my own silence. I deconstruct the subject and lay the essentials out before me--light, color, tone, movements, and textures. Each canvas is transformed by simple brush strokes of ingenuity. The final product is a reflection of my true self and outlook on life.

Consumed with intoxicating colors, textures, and wistful variations of reality, my work expresses my passion for life and love of the artistic medium. Each piece is a holding chamber of overwhelming power and emotion that demands the attention of the viewer-- draws them in deeper than the surface of the canvas and into the feelings that guided my brush as I created it. The art has become an unyielding mirror of myself and my beliefs. 

Painting is my true language and it is the only thing that allows me the freedom to express my ideas, thoughts, and emotions. This new collection of paintings is inspired by the life that exists all around us. I have attempted to breakdown a place or a moment to its visual essentials. I have used these existing places as a gateway to my own universe and interpretation of what I see.

Some of my most recent pieces are represented full time by The Northshore Gallery of Contemporary Art in Chattanooga. My previous work was shown at the AVA Hunter Museum Underground Event, Art.a.ama.jig, Emporium of Knoxville, Winter Street Studio in Houston Texas, and an Arts Gallery in Montreal, Canada. 

I believe that everyone leaves a footprint in our daily lives. This is what I want to capture in my work. Painting is my speech, my playground, and my own reality. Thank you for letting me share this with you.