About my painting

My career began in painting restorer, but when I started creating my own works, I chose the path of an independent artist. For nearly two decades, my painting was shaped by a way of thinking rooted in traditional oil technique and observation, while magical and symbolic elements were already present in my imagery.

A few years ago, my experimental curiosity led me toward new technical directions, and I began incorporating embroidery into the surface of my paintings. What interested me was not its decorative aspect, but the possibility of opening a new spatial dimension within the image. A practical necessity—an allergy to chemicals and paints—eventually pushed me further along this path, bringing changes both to my technique and to my visual approach.

In earlier works, alongside the figurative presence and the strong visual focus, narrative often played an important role. Myths, fairy tales, biblical stories, and invisible realms intertwined with everyday human life. I have long been interested in how images can give form to the boundary between ordinary consciousness and those domains that remain unseen.

My paintings have a meditative quality. The figures often appear absorbed in simple actions, inhabiting the present moment. At one time I was particularly interested in human connection and shared presence; later, figures increasingly emerged as symbolic manifestations of inner psychological processes and archetypal contents. In several works, goddess figures from different eras and cultures appear, reflecting my interest in how feminine qualities—understood even as psychological forces—can be condensed into a symbolic image.

For a period I also explored a more reduced visual language, using motifs built on symbols to articulate images filtering through from both the collective and my own inner world.

More recently, landscape has taken on a more prominent role in my work. The human figure appears as part of nature, while the landscape itself becomes a metaphor for the inner world.

I paint quiet, contemplative, colorful images that move along the threshold between reality and dream, inviting the viewer into an inner journey.