Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jules Silver. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Jules thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you could go back in time do you wish you had started your creative career sooner or later?

Participating in the arts in its various forms has played a major roll in helping me develop as an artist . learning to play an instrument, dancing and painting has taken me to a place where I feel I can now explore and express with paint a variety of feelings that I can not always do with words. It truly is a form of freeing the soul. And as my tag line says “I paint to be free”.

My only regret is not being able to paint as often as I would have liked in my earlier years.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Being able to paint is one of the greatest feelings of self expression I have. For me it is a total release of my inner most feelings that cannot always be expressed in words or when words cannot easily be found to best describe what I’m feeling when a blank canvas, paint and some instrument to apply it with is all I need.

Discovering painting as a release became one of those “aha” moments for me. A method of communicating with the viewer about who I am, what I am feeling and what I’m creating so viewer can explore their own feelings through the various shapes, lines and colors that they see.

My work resonates with many of the abstract artists from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Names like Motherwell, Kline, Rothko, Still, and Pollock to name a few. I am mostly self taught although I have worked with and taken classes from some of the best abstract artists in Florida, California and Colorado. I work mostly with acrylic paint but many times I will collage and use other mixed media ingredients to accentuate a piece of work.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

My greatest reward is for the observer to take away some new found freedoms and to experience their own feelings in the moment. To paraphrase Picasso just “look and observe with no need to understand but to feel” If I create this I will have succeeded in my work.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

One of the greatest obstacles for an artist to overcome is fear. It could be the fear of starting with an intimidating blank canvas or fear of making a mistake, One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that there are no mistakes. There may better or easier ways of creating something but each stroke upon the canvas can be changed with just another stroke of the brush.

I have turned the following quote by Mandy Hale (blogger, writer) into a mantra that seems to work pretty well for me. “You don’t always need a plan – just breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”

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Contact Info:

• Instagram: @julessilverart
• Facebook: Julessilverart
• Other: Saatchi Art – Jules Silver Art The Hub on Canal Gallery – thehuboncanal.org