You don't have to ask first, just do it.

As Artists we need really to think about what we are doing and why we are doing it?

Something that I realized when I came to Asia was that I was not a camera and I did not have to paint what I saw and I could even make it up because it was what I was feeling.

My vision became what I saw, what I felt and what I imagined and all these combined I put into my paintings.

I did not consider if it was right or wrong, because it was my vision for me, so I painted it.

What a difference from how I painted before, making sure I followed all the rules.

I painted a painting called “Wind in the Bamboo” and to show the wind I painted it in lots of different colours racing across the canvas, I would have never done that in Australia, I would have said you can't do that, you show wind by the leaning of the trees and the foliage, but now I painted it.

Finally I had come to the place where there were no rules.

I know this might not be for you, because many people need rules because that is how we were taught in school.

You are not a camera either but that was how you were taught to paint.

My daughter painted a painting at school and made the sky orange and the teacher said she was wrong to do that and fix it.

My daughter said that her daddy paints the sky orange and he is right because he is an Artist, the teacher backed down.

There are no rules my friend, be like a child and paint the sky orange if you want to.

You don't have to ask first, just do it.