INTERVIEW
I was born an artist I suppose. It is something you have inside you and this feeling will push you to express yourself with a medium of your choice.
For me it was paint, oil paint actually as I love the texture and the way oil paint can be mixed to create wonderful effects and do not dry instantly so you can work at it on and on until you are satisfied.
My fist passion was with the Surrealist movement as Dali, Magritte, and many others. It was the fact to be able to create an imaginary world that fascinated me at the time.
Then I discover the power of colours , as they can transform moods, express feelings as peace and anger, emotion as love and hate and so forth which slowly moved me towards abstraction with the full use of shapes and volumes in order to express these human feelings .
Now I am into figuration supported still by strong colours with a twist of abstraction in the composition. I am pushing these even further by creating an effect of stain glass windows as in churches where these stain glass windows inspire the worshippers for mediation, spirituality, peace, reflection and growth. Therefore I am trying in my recent works to have these same factors mentioned above in order for the viewers to feel that the painting talks to them, moves them and they feel happy and regenerated.
An artist for me is a person with a gift because he or she can see and feels things differently from other people. It could be a curse too because sometimes an artist will suffer more than anybody else due to his or hers sensibility and would feel therefore very isolated. A frustrated artist can be a very dangerous person too as Hitler to mention a few.
Art is a reflection of civilization and evolution. Each society from the past is basically recognized through the art they have left behind. Visual art for me as an artist is the most important thing with music and writing that the humans have done. Even religions would be supported by the art to complement their beliefs. We would not be evolved to be humans without the art.
I was working in different jobs for a long time not liking it and my dream was always to be a full time artist. One day I did it and never regretted it ever since. You would find always ways to adept to a new life you would leave behind if you feel it in your heart, inside you. It is my passion and it came to be my full time employment. Therefore creating artworks, dealing with the art market and the art dealers, the clients and the up and down of a professional life is exiting and not a burden.
My motivation and my inspiration is my environment and nature. I am fascinated by the way people inter-react with each other. Sometimes in a nice way and sometimes in an horrible way. I want to pass on a message in my work, which could be read and felt by the person looking at it. I want to lift their soul and their feeling and bring them happiness if I can. But I am still very intrigued by the way contemporary societies evolve. I am through my eyes and my brain trying to reflect on social environments, familial cells and social classes. This is especially expressed in one of my Series : People in Group . In this Series I express human feelings by the bodily expressions of it. The characters do not have faces but all the sensibility for each individual is created and expressed by the position of the human shape connected with others.
I would describe my style as Expressionistic and I suppose I can be attached to this art movement. Through my work I express by the use of colour , human shape and composition, feelings and moods. I express therefore I am an Expressionist.
My major theme is the expression of societies and it’s environment supported by a study of spirituality among these social groups.
My style of course has evolved with time. I can see and feel I am getting more mature in my creation and in my creative journey. I could not live my life without painting. It is like an addiction and as every addict I cannot stop myself doing it.
“DEPARTURE ”
