Concept
Painting - my heart and soul!
I love it! With everything that goes with it. Gathering materials for a project, choosing colours, visualising the work, walking brushstrokes, throwing paint, drawing contours accurately, painting intuitively, letting paint flow, mixing pigments, casting resin, gilding, framing, shooting photos, exhibiting. So much is involved. But one thing is very
important: play, play, play!
Picasso recognised that every child is an artist, but it is adults who have forgotten what it is like to play. Something magical arises from the desire to explore and the lightness that comes from it: we are allowed to be. Just as we are, and come back to our origin. Experience
freedom and happiness. I believe everyone can have this experience, no matter how uncreative he/she thinks they are. And I have made this wonderful task my profession.
When painting, I love to 'relinquish control' so that a painting can develop itself. This is especially true in abstract painting. I listen to what comes from within.
Although I am careful to leave each work its uniqueness, there is one element that unites almost all of my paintings: Gold. Whether as a spray, acrylic paint, metal leaf or other material, it doesn't matter. However, gold leaf has become a kind of trademark for my works in recent years.
If there was one colour that would be assigned to any person, mine would be gold. Strictly speaking, gold is more than just a colour, it seems out of this world. And I love the meaning: precious, loved, beautiful, shiny, pure, rare, hard to get. And that's exactly what I want to convey with the gold in my works. I want to put something beautiful and precious into the hands of the new owners. To release a little glory in their homes. To create golden moments.
When I paint, I want to express not only beauty, but also a hopeful look into the future. Thus, the painting also lives on after its completion.
