Why I Became An Artist?

By: Amit Kumar

Please allow me to reveal a truth about, why I became an artist, started painting and chose this as my career and my livelihood. In school at that time, I loved and enjoyed painting art works and won many competitions at school level. At that time I knew in my soul that this was going to be my future life and accepted it as my career.

After school I took admissions for graduation to higher studies and moved out to another city. With a myriad of thoughts at the time, I forgot about painting, but still loved to do any artistic work whenever it came across in my way like in any function in college or in hostel. In my final year, I still didn’t know where I was going with my art, but cleared my mind knowing that I had to complete my Master of Business Administration (MBA) and then do a job for some time and then start something new.

I joined another college for higher study and started my study and completed it in two years.  During these two years I started painting some and also exhibited in a show in the college auditorium with huge collections and also got a placement with a good package.  Upon joining an established organization, I started going to the office and lived life with a simple same routine day after day.  I didn’t enjoy it.  After sometime, I seriously questioned what I am actually doing, for this I was definitely was not born.

At the same time, I saw many problems in society whether on social networking sites, on news, or on my ways when traveling anywhere, I saw many problems like poor people begging, humans just ignoring each other, caring not at all if anyone dead on road in accident, old person lying on road, no food to eat for people, small children begging on street.  Lots of problem I observed and sometimes I felt terrible and ask from deep within myself: Who am I?  What is my role on this earth?

With many thoughts and imaginations I started to paint and to live in my own way and in that I felt free from everything and also realized that to be free and happy you have to live with your passion.  I became an artist and also planned to open my own art gallery to support many artists like me and other professionals.  Today, personally, artistically, and professionally, I am growing and feeling satisfied that I am doing what I want and leading my life and supporting many people without any exception and this will I do for my whole life.  My dream is to set a platform for all from which everyone can get whatever they want in the art field.