Artist Statement
In my artistic work I deal with the nature of perceived realities. I approach these by means of a poetic visual language in which symbols from history, mythology and dreams mix with the everyday and the personal. The canvas offers me the space in which I can freely create references and develop narratives, constantly searching for a balance between realistic and naïve figuration. I understand painting itself as the powerful conservation of a physical gesture. From a palette in which shades of violet, pink, orange and green play an important role, I develop stories and still images that exist in an atmospheric space and condense memories and imaginings into abstract moments that become generally accessible and experiential here. In this way I refer to the power and abundance of the inner world and to an associative kind of intelligence that creates reality and eludes a temporal sense of logic. When I think of the ideal feeling one might have when looking at one of my paintings, I think of evening light in blades of grass, the feeling of stroking an animal and stories told behind slightly ajar doors.
