I am an artist living in Melbourne magnificent north!
The most important thing for me to 'do' as an artist is get out of the way and allow something I have no way of understanding "take the reins".

My painting is a direct offering of my own relationship to that which I have long called “The universe”, “Eternal Awareness”, “The all that is”, “Infinite Consciousness” But now feel totally comfortable simply calling ‘God’.
My paintings are an absolute mystery, even to me.
I have no idea why I create them or indeed what they’re about. And if I did, quite frankly I’d see no point in continuing to create them and stop immediately.
All I know is that I am driven by an unending urge to constantly paint and if I stop I feel sad and isolated from myself.
Most important of all, when I’m painting properly, with clarity and truth, there are times when it feels as though it is no longer ‘me’ that is painting, but rather someone/thing else. Whilst I have no words for this feeling, I live for it.

Below are a few quotes by artists I admire enormously, whom I feel sum up what it is I wish to say with simplicity and profound insight.

“If I knew what I was going to paint, what would be the point in painting it?” Pablo Picasso

“I hear people discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes, I couldn’t say any other way. Things I had no words for.” Georgia O’keefe

“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?” Wassily Kandinski

“I paint whatever comes into my head without any further consideration.” – Frida Kahlo

“I don’t mean to give you a zen koan, but the work I did is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don’t know.. That’s why I can’t tell you.. I don’t know what I’m doing. And that’s what makes it interesting.” - Philip Glass