I enjoyed drawing since quite an early age. In fact, I was good at it and was always regarded as the best pupil artist by teachers and classmates from the first year of elementary school and the last year of high school.
However, I lost my interest in art once I had set my future dream to be a rock star like Keith Richards as I was in junior high school and then, until around at age 30, my whole life was dedicated to music. That was why I rarely painted in my teens and twenties.
Before I started thinking of becoming a painter by myself, I had received a set of fateful realizations in my life for several years in a row. The first one was a major influence from the work of Francis Bacon, whom I first knew via an artbook I happened to purchase on my trip oversea. Seeing Bacon's work, I suddenly got a hunch that I might be able to create something cool in painting which is no less great than the art of music. That was a very important inspiration to me.
Next, I was working at a gallery for one and a half years and I saw a lot of paintings and prints (the majority of them were of 20th century French figurative painters) there then and began to re-think like 'creating art, though it is much different from creating music, might be a very fun thing'.
The third one was when I had worked as an afterschool childcare staff for four years after I had quit working at the gallery. I often made sketches for kids and gave them at schools. They always delighted getting it and used to tell me that I am so good at drawing. I realized that maybe I'm a good artist or can be like so.
Anyway, my life was just like written above, and at age 31, I was disappointed in my forever obscure musical career and beginning to think it might be about time to quit music and change myself into a painter. In fact, it was like a divine revelation.
I had sold all my musical instruments and recording equipment then with that money I bought large quantities of art supplies then I took up my self-taught painting endeavors.
I am planning to write about my life after I started painting seriously in later articles.
You can read my brief bio HERE.
See you next time.
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