The Story of an Artist

Growing up in numerous places but being from San Diego California, I’ve experienced many blessings and hardships in trying to find myself as a young Black woman in a world where society does not want to know us, nor us to truly know ourselves. It is through my experience as a Black woman and having a creative mind, that I am able to create works of art the way I do. When I paint, I paint to tell stories to those who are willing to listen, along with those around me who I feel need to hear me. When I paint, I paint to tell the stories of the unheard, the voiceless, and those who look like me but never get the true representation of greatness they deserve to see. I paint for my community and the young black girls who grew up just like me feeling uncomfortable in their own skin because of the lack of fair visibility through select media always excluding the people and stories that truly matter. Through the last three years, I have been forming my craft as a painter, specifically as an artist in order to prepare not only myself but the world for the revolutionary artist that is Jazzlyn Arielle Rainey.