Heart and Soul: My painting journey


The writer’s painting titled Fireworks (acrylic on canvas, 2016).

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

I have always loved painting, for I find the act of releasing one’s emotions and thoughts on canvas liberating.

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