Sel Sarkin

My love is Zen painting an expression of no thought. A burst of energy.

As a child I was good at drawing and painting landscape scenes using vivid colors. I returned to painting in the 90's while I was traveling in India. I studied with Meera, a well known abstract Japanese artist, who used a no-mind, zen approach to painting.

Creative expression is a willingness to be open to what evolves on the canvas.

With no goal or result in mind, the time spent on the painting, the journey, is the result.

Whether or not it is pleasing to the eye, or to someone elses eye is another story.

My joy in painting is the appearance of shapes and colors rapidly forming before me. It takes me into quiet space inside.