As an artist, I have always been fascinated by the collisions of color, the transitions from one color to another, their energy, and its expression through the character of the brushstroke. This is why I am drawn to the art of Paul Gauguin, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, and William Turner.

The combination of artistic and art historical education coupled with accumulated life experience has led me to create works where abstract painting becomes a tool for emotional and existential expression.

I resonate with Rothko's notion of simple expression of complex thought and of the internal sensation of forms without the intervention of the mind, about the "color field" (a movement also pursued by Helen Frankenthaler). They believed that painting begins with color and should provide a physical and sensual, not intellectual experience, which can later be expressed through perception.

Just as the act of writing letters is for Cy Twombly, for me, the act of painting, leaving tangible traces on the canvas, is an artistic expression. The performativity of the stroke, demonstrating the vibration of color has an emotional, almost tactile impact.

Artist statement

Color is essence, energy. In my artworks one can journey through the uneven flashes of color, its waves, or feel through the black-marked "stitches" the ruptures, seams of space as one's own harmony, inflammation, happiness, or soul's drama. Waves of color open up space for memories and experiences. This is a realm for speculations, lost data subject to recovery through sensory experience, anticipation and farewell, solitude and the desire to reunite, the past and the future simultaneously.

The red spectrum of color in my works is the color of the cosmic explosion, prenatal life and life itself. A person, interacting with my works, finds themselves immersed in their own primordially, visually and emotionally discerning an existence hidden from them in the real world.

Lucio Fontana, who worked with ruptures of the canvas-space, wrote: "I create a new, infinite dimension, opening access to space". This was also strived for by Turner, who studied the nature of the movement of water and air, trying to unite the elements.

Everything inside and around us is in eternal motion; there is nothing immobilized in the world. And although painting is formally considered spatial, not temporal art, I strive to convey the cohesion of spaces inside and around us in their continuous movement, uniting not only feelings, but also the external and internal, the psychological time of the individual, thereby presenting a freely emotionally apprehensible existential meaning.