In 1998, after a particularly painful meeting at work, I looked at some of the doodles on my notepad and impulsively decided to take up brushes and do a painting based on one of them.
Over the next few years I continued to paint, at first sporadically and then with increasing frequently.
By 2003 I was painting on a regular basis, and began exhibiting my works.
Painting has become a part of my life, a way to express myself and to keep myself sane.
Carl Jung, commenting on the process of creating poetry, wrote of the extraverted type of poet:
“These works positively force themselves upon the author; his hand is seized, his pen writes things that his mind contemplates with amazement… He is overwhelmed with a flood of thoughts and images which he never intended to create and which his own will could never have bought into being. Yet in spite of himself he is forced to admit that it is his own self speaking, his own inner nature revealing itself and uttering things which he would never have entrusted to his tongue.”
That is the type of painter that I find I am; I don’t choose what I paint, my paintings just come through me, channeling my inner thoughts and feelings in a way that nothing else can.
Click Here for a list of locations that my paintings have appeared at
In addition to painting I draw, play on the computer more than I should, and spend far too much time working as a sales analyst.
I'm married (10th anniversary in 2004!) to a beautiful woman who loves my artwork and acts as my artist's rep. We have no children and no plans for children, but do have two very cute bunnies.
If you are interested in purchasing any of my paintings or other artwork,
or in exhibiting them in your gallery or place of business,
or just have any questions abuot me or my work,
or if you just want to say 'hi' for that matter,
please e-mail
Aintes@aol.com
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