Find Your Authentic Painting Voice – Why Does It Matter?
When I first started painting, it was all about infatuation, love, and creative joy. I could paint around the clock – everything about it was fun.
But the more I learned about the craft, the harder it got. I felt a growing frustration that I couldn’t express what I carried inside.
When I first started painting, it was all about infatuation and creative joy. I could paint around the clock – everything about it was fun.
But the more I learned about the craft, the harder it got. I felt a growing frustration that I couldn’t express what I carried inside.
Thoughts crept in: It’s not good enough. I started too late. I’m a word person, not a visual artist. I’m autistic and can’t imagine a finished painting in advance. I’m too tired. And what if I actually succeeded – or failed completely?
Of course, these were just ways for my ego to try and “save” me from revealing my true self – even if only to myself, on a canvas.
Being true is scary – but necessary
Because the ego believes it’s dangerous to be real. What if others don’t like it? What if I’m ridiculed, rejected, ruined?
It took time for me to realize I had it all wrong. I didn’t need to paint “well.” I needed to paint truthfully, authentically. What was true for me, in my way.
And when I did, something magical happened: the art came alive. It became unique – because there was only one person who could make it. Me.
It’s not technical skill that touches people – it’s honesty, authenticity. It’s soul.
We touch others when we are authentic
You feel it immediately when you see art born from a true inner place. It’s not polished or perfect – but it has presence. It whispers, maybe shouts: Here I am! And in that, a connection is born – between the artist, the artwork, and the viewer.
Authenticity makes the work unique. No two pieces can ever be the same. That’s what makes art compelling – that it is you.
You have a visual language that no one else can imitate. That’s what we want from you – because it inspires us to maybe dare the same: to be true to ourselves.
And isn’t that one of the deepest purposes of the artist? To show others how we – who see, feel, and perceive the world in a particular way – experience reality? So others can see through our eyes. Feel with our hearts.
My way home – through authentic painting
For me, as an artist with an autistic operating system, the journey toward authentic painting has been a journey home. A place where I can be whole, no matter how I feel or what’s going on around me – with both chaos and order, stillness and storm.
As an autistic person, I live in the details. The whole can sometimes feel overwhelming, even absent. But through painting, I can create my own whole. My own meaning. And that is healing.
My painting is often messy. Layer upon layer, paint added and removed, often outside my control. And right there – in the unpolished – lives the truth. The part that says: I’m not trying to please – I’m just trying to be me.
Others sense that. They recognize something within themselves. Even if they don’t experience the world as I do, they also carry something true. And it’s those true parts of us that meet – heart to heart.
Authenticity is a choice we make again and again
Authentic painting isn’t something that happens once and for all. It’s a process – a lifelong practice. An exercise in presence, awareness, in being okay with uncertainty. In following joy and instinct, even when the result doesn’t feel “good enough.”
It’s about daring to show what we usually hide. Trusting the process. Becoming more whole than we’ve ever dared to be before.
We tend to ask the wrong questions:
– What if no one likes what I create?
– What if I have nothing to say?
– What if I show myself – and get rejected?
But those are the wrong questions. Instead, ask:
– How can I create something I genuinely like?
– What matters to me? (We all have something to say – anything else is just an excuse!)
– What happens if I never dare to show who I truly am? (Because hiding is even worse.)
When you dare to be yourself in every moment that leads to a finished painting – how you apply the paint, how you choose your subject, how you move through the creative process – you’ll start to recognize yourself in what emerges. You will see yourself in the painting. And it’s magical. You’ll want to feel it again and again.
And when that happens, others will begin to feel it too.
And that’s where the magic begins.
Art as a model for courage
When you dare to show who you are, you give others permission to do the same. You offer more than a painting – you invite others into deeper human presence.
And maybe that’s exactly what the world needs right now:
Less perfection. More realness.
Less façade. More soul.
So the next time you stand before the canvas – dare to be you.
Not the version you think others want.
Not the version you’ve learned to perform.
But the whole you, with everything that comes with it.
What would that look like? What would it feel like to paint authentically?
That’s where Art lives.
And that’s where you are free.
Art heals.
Art touches.
Art builds bridges – from heart to heart.
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