Although illustration was my dream job even as a child, there was always this feeling that one day I would paint and create my own ideas. But “one day” is not a day on the calendar, and so it took a literal punch in the face during a robbery for me to realize that dreams need to be lived while we are still willing and able to do so. So now.

I already had 10 years of experience in plein air painting, but now there was no turning back. On January 1, 2020, at the age of 55, I declared myself a painter and worked with all my energy on my technique. My biggest surprise was that painting does not work like illustration: the result was no longer the focus, but rather the actual process of painting was the path that was the goal. Since then, a video camera has accompanied most of my paintings. I want to get closer to the actual effect of painting, I want to understand why and how resonance arises.

I quickly focused on portraits and figurative painting because my academic training allows me to best bring out the emotional range and experiential depth and expression in these genres. I prefer a lively and spontaneous painting style that changes and reorients itself repeatedly during the painting process.