ARTIST STATEMENT

Art is an adventure for me. It’s a creative playground to explore as I figure out what I’m going to do when I grow up—or maybe I will just play my way through life and forget growing up.

Painting, drawing, collage, photography and writing have always been a part of my life and I see no reason to stop any of them. The arts give the soul a voice and everyone has a voice—some just don’t realize it yet or fear the unknown. Since my art is unconventional, using linoleum brayers and kitchen spatulas as my tools, people look at it as play. Hey, so do I. I will therefore paint and play and not worry about the consequences. When I and others I teach, can get the ego out of the art, and just be directed by the materials and the experience, the divine spark and inspiration appears in the art. It probably won’t be anything you expected, but it is your divine voice. Quieting oneself and being one with the experience is a form of meditation and communing with the divine essence or source of inspiration.

God paints with me and through me, giving rise to images and combinations of colors and shapes that I alone with a brush would not be able to make. It is a moment of clarity and truth—my truth—that allows for the experience. Each moment in time is a NOW, and if I remain in the NOW, then I have no past or future to concern me. Paint in the NOW. Don’t judge, don’t criticize, don’t fret, just blissfully paint, and enjoy the NOW. Your truth will emerge as you create.

Pam Brekas