Emily Attwell

I am new to Imagekind and am exploring this means of sharing my work. I am a piano teacher in Washington, DC. My painting is very connected to how I organize space in my head when I make music, to the shapes I visualize, to the forms that the music suggests. Music is a way of painting inside my head, and painting or drawing is a way of expressing the same thing visually.

While I took art classes growing up, I didn't come to painting and drawing on my own until much later in life. I am self-taught in that I've had no formal art training beyond high school, but I do have very suppo...

I am new to Imagekind and am exploring this means of sharing my work. I am a piano teacher in Washington, DC. My painting is very connected to how I organize space in my head when I make music, to the shapes I visualize, to the forms that the music suggests. Music is a way of painting inside my head, and painting or drawing is a way of expressing the same thing visually.

While I took art classes growing up, I didn't come to painting and drawing on my own until much later in life. I am self-taught in that I've had no formal art training beyond high school, but I do have very supportive friends whom I consider my "teachers".