There is a reason we evolved as artists in so many forms, for this is how our neurology self heals and seeks to both heal and stabilise society. The painting, the artist and the art, is part of the story of how humans became more humane.
Every painting is a story of healing, of seeking "love-tings" and "comfort-tings."
When we let the "tings" of pain, the stings that linger, out into the painting, then we see it. Then we can comprehend it at every level of the brain from the conscious to the subconscious. For we speak in many languages other than words.
The painter is a healer of the self and others, for their art is a story told in the foundational languages of the brain - in emotion, in visual dream-language. And so their painting is societal medicine and the reason we are so drawn to art becomes ever more obvious.
The painting is my soul upon the canvas, a story of colours and rising hope.
The painting speaks directly to my soul in a language I knew at my birth.