After all I am an asshole! Painting

I am a Contemporary artist with a European academic traditional leaning. Autodidact for the most part, I have brush my elbows with someplace that are important to the art world; schools, academics, artist, critics but that’s another story altogether. Most of time I paint, but sometimes I write as well. Always in pursuit of the most honest and pure art I can paint or see. I wish that I could define my infatuation with paint or making paintings specify, I could easily relate it to the story you hear about a sailor falling love with the sea. All though I know no sailors and I do live in a port city, but I totally understand what it means to be infatuated with an idea. Either way it makes me look and see things differently than most people, so I run at an atypical pace. People have passed through my life but the one constant thing has been my painting.