Pass PaintEventArgs into method

I have the following method in C#:

private string adjustColumnValueLength(String value, int maxLength, PaintEventArgs e)
{
    // Set up our string font
    System.Drawing.Font printFontText = new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular);            
    SizeF stringSize = new SizeF();
    string newValue = value;

    // Loop until the string fits the size we need
    for (int x = value.Length; x >= 0; x--)
    {
        // Measure the string
        newValue = value.Substring(0, x);
        stringSize = e.Graphics.MeasureString(newValue, printFontText);
        Size roundedSize = Size.Round(stringSize);
        if (Int32.Parse(roundedSize.ToString()) <= maxLength)
        {
            return newValue;
        }
    }
    return newValue;
}

I am calling this from within another method to get the length of a string to match the width in pixels I have to display it, however I have NO idea how I am supposed to pass in the PaintEventArgs. I've tried using System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs but that does not work.

How can this be accomplished?