About

Ipaintforgod was the very first name I knew to give to what I was doing with art when I rediscovered it for myself in Asheville around 2016-2017. I was exploring creating these expressive, abstract, collage paintings–sometimes I used text with them. But I thought I was creating art that was just the most honest and real work, and it was not coming from a traditionally trained artist, which made it more intriguing.

 I was prolific over this time. I was treating any opportunity as a chance to produce artwork–and I was imagining what I could do with any medium to create artwork. I didn’t have a message. I thought Basquiat was just throwing paint like Pollock. I thought that’s all I needed—no message, no story. When it came to the few interviews I did get, I said whatever I thought was honest and epic. I was thinking about history lol!

That’s when I ditched the ipaintforgod site and recreated it as history is art. I wanted to do something different. Ipaintforgod felt so distant. I hadn’t shared any art in an exhibition since I moved from Asheville. After I moved, I immediately went into caretaking mode, into grad student mode, and into get a job mode. Through it all, I have relaunched Ipaintforgod.com as a website where I cover what interests me in art, the story of my own art journey, links to items and artwork for sale.