:: Welcome to my website
"The
artist gathers emotions from everywhere: from the sky, from the earth,
from a piece of paper, from a passing form, from a spider's web. And it
is exactly because of this that you can't make distinctions between
things, because they're not stratified by class. You must take what you
can use where you find it, but not from you own work. It would be
revolting for me to copy myself, but I don't hesitate to take what I
want from a portfolio of old drawings" Scritti di Picasso
From as far back as I can remember I've been impressed by colors,
sounds and forms...
In my earlier years I used to look at the world around me and found it
too big to understand, to overwhelming to comprehend and so I wanted to
narrow my understanding to the 'masterpieces' I liked the best, having
the confidence that my feelings can process what I liked. And so I used
to shape my hands into a frame so as to single out what I wanted,
hoping that the image would stay with me. But this never happened - my
feelings were obscure, vague…struggling to free themselves, to make
sense, they always failed…
I studied History of Art. This is where I learned about the emotional
intensity found in Matisse's colors, the spiritualism found in the
colors and shapes of Kandinsky's work, the intimacy and humanity found
in Rothko's paintings...
And so my art is a collection of emotions and feelings.
I gather them daily…
My sources? A conversation with a friend, an uplifting story of the
human spirit, a musical note, the laugh or cry of a child…
When this happens, when I find a source, I do what I used to do years
back – I shape my hands into a frame and store the feelings into
my soul, hanging them one by one in my gallery.
By themselves my sources rarely offer me enlightenment and so I cannot
consider any of them to be a reliable subject. However I stroll through
my gallery from time to time, making sure that they didn't lose their
color. Or scent… Or, even worse, that they are dusted…
Sometimes some of them, together, create an image - this is when I
think about it... I feel it… And then, when I believe that everything
is clear I try to find some peace and quiet and let by brush put in
colors what my mind and soul want to say. When I stand up and look at
my paintings, I realize that their creation is spontaneous and
unpredictable. I often called them "accidents of the soul" as other
impressions and feelings try to come to live, to find their way in the
paining, completing it. Sometimes the lines and forms suggest the
object; but often enough the colors give birth to forms that determine
the subject.
My paintings represent the world I live in. I express in my work things
like hope, love, patience, restraint passion, integrity, confidence…
Thanks you for taking the time to visit my web site. |
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