This isn’t my usual content, but I’m hoping you won’t mind me sharing some random thoughts with you. Although most of my paintings have a very personal background, which I often describe in my blog posts, I don’t ever stop by here just “to chat”…

I’ve been struggling with my self-image lately. Different reasons, most just reoccurring complexes I’ve had since I was very young. Some are new. But today I saw a beautiful painting of an artist I really admire, and she named it a “non-consensual self-portrait”. And it got me thinking.

I attempted a self-portrait once, a few months back. Oh, what a disaster! I wonder how hard that is for most artists, even more so female artists, to paint themselves. I assume men wouldn’t have much of an issue with it, perhaps their challenges would be of other sorts… I wouldn’t know.

But I’d love to paint a self-portrait, something borderline abstract maybe, free shaped, maybe, but I just can’t. I can’t see me.

Any piece of advice?

Anyhow, it’s a process, I know.

G.