Painting has always been part of my life going back to my childhood growing up in an artistic family who was involved in music & painting.
I express my emotion and my need for total expressive freedom for more than 20 years though my paintings.
I start with a painting idea an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
Though sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my unconscious, the way a dream might be.
Sometimes we are able to see figures which I’m not aware of. I choose colours of intense black, blue, reds, etc.
The chemistry of pigments is interesting, like bone black is made from charred bones of horns.
Sometimes I wonder laying in a black strip, will it absorb the light, will it absorb deeper, darker and darker before me.
Only love for painting in this instance is able to cover the fearful void.
A fresh white canvas is a void as is the poets sheet of blank white paper.
Living through this forces, this red blue and black reveal them self, forcefully, always able to create a vision, a partition, an intelligence, a language, a music.
“ Painting is a way of thinking that like music, tends to become its own object. ”
Inspired by Motherwell, Frankenthaler, Tapies, Georg Baselitz.
I reject the convention of easel painting. Mostly I work on the floor, alternatively I start on the floor, finish large canvases on the wall.
Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive.
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