I refer to myself as the paintress. A female artist, and a painter. Why become an artist, and why paint, one might ask? To me art was somehow a natural choice. Through art my abilities and talents can be combined with intellectual procecces controlled by myself. This is both a great privilege and a personal desire.
Oil painting has been around for 500 years, and is not necessarely an obvious working medium for the artist of today. There are multiple ways for an artist to express oneself, through all kinds of mediums, and through an endless number of crossovers.
The thing is.. One can easily get hooked on painting with oils. It gets to you, and the paint becomes like an extention of your organs. The oxidization become a part of your respiration. The endless process of mixing colours is the meetingpoint between pigments and chemistry, analysis and intuition.
