I believe that painters must be honest with our painting and aware of the power it holds. Painting is often more powerful than our ideas, and during the process, the painting challenges you, it pushes back. It is okay to struggle a little with it, but almost always it is the painting that wins the battle. I could see it as a failure, but I prefer to see it as a miracle…
I spend a lot of time and have tried many different techniques to achieve exactly what I want to see as the background in my work. Along with that, learning when an artwork is actually finished is a constant challenge…
There’s something beautiful about that continued conversation art has over generations, even after we’re gone. We’re leaving our mark and contributing a piece of something that hopefully will continue growth and creative discovery.
My choice of abstraction was not accidental. I have always felt the need to express myself according to my own rules and to create my own formal universe. That is also the main reason why I quickly moved away from figuration, which I experienced as a limitation, almost a dead end…
When I create only from what I already know, I notice that the process can become repetitive and predictable. It may feel easier or more controlled, but at the same time it risks limiting growth and exploration. I believe that meaningful creative development often happens in moments of uncertainty, where there is room for experimentation, mistakes, and discovery.
I am intrigued and drawn to the futility of ourselves and also paradoxically the importance we place in ourselves, the centreground we inhabit and the control we pretend to have. I think there is more comfort and reward in being aware of the insignificance…
Energy alone is not the source of creativity; I believe that everything emerges through sustained work. I strongly believe in determination, in the act of doing, in taking initiative, in movement and momentum, as well as in curiosity and the ability to find wonder in simple things.
I like being alone in my studio, when nobody sees me or talks to me. I concentrate a lot, and noise bothers me. Perhaps the only thing I can think about is colors.
It is a work about questioning, questioning constantly. Bending the knee, seeing again, looking once more from another angle. What drives me is discovery at every new step, not knowing what comes next. Ignorance is a starting point. Setting out on an adventure while embracing surprise.
I always envisioned my studio as a place to hang out, to get work done, but also just to get comfortable being bored. A lot of what I could call inspiration comes from boredom.
When I start to paint, I usually put classical music and at the end of day, techno music. I like cigarettes, Dr Martens shoes and Coca Cola, in that order. My sentence: Pizza is from China.
I have been making art for as long as I can remember. It started out with sketches and small canvases in my childhood bedroom, but I soon discovered my passion for large scale canvases and paintings.
The mix of colors, textures, sounds, movements, people that I encounter in my everyday activity acts like punches or caresses in my mind
An encounter can be by chance. It can be romantic or hostile, abrupt, a confrontation, spiritual, religious or rife with mysticism. I am interested in how butting up against something can often be how we discover form. It is through the experience of both confrontation and juxtaposition that things take shape.
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