for a decade I painted pictures to play at being an artist, so I had a better self image than rolling door “career psychiatric”. Over time the paintings became fairly plausible and I got into the process of trying to conjure images from the void. I had exhibitions and occasionally sales, and got to know people in the scene. I was never truly an artist painter; I didn’t have the perfectioinist quality control common among people who paint properly. In fact, I celebrated a deliberate “anti-perfectionism” and this liberated me to produce countless paintings that mostly fill up my garage and house now.
I called this style of painting “outsider surrealism”, as a nod to the automatic painting of the surrealists, and my own self-identified status as “over-qualified outsider”
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the Omar Majeed DIY extraveganza 