artist statement

Art is way of living. It is dynamic process whereby I am constantly trying to articulate answers to what I believe are fundamental questions. Or react to certain emotions I feel while witnessing our world.

Sometimes I feel our time is perhaps too much rational, as if everything can be explained in logical and rational manner. Some things I prefer to feel rather than explain. And then I paint. I am not afraid of inexplicable. I find joy in trying to feel where others want to explain. Therefore I find abstract paintings to be my perfect language to express inexplicable.

In the beginning I used to be inspired by the nature and world that surrounds me. My paintings were result of an emotional dialogue with my environment. My main preoccupation was endeavoring to achieve the perfect balance between colors, shapes and space between them, trying thereby to reach perfect composition. Today, I am more
inspired by different cultures, art traditions and histories due my many travels and "nomadic" way of life. With interaction of different visual genres I want to provide a new eye-point in experiencing different cultural patterns.

In my works I use acrylic colours which I mix with sand, ink and golden leaves. Orange and golden are even my favourite colours. Orange is positioned between yellow and red, and therefore the most radiant. It is also the colour of God's love. We can find it with Buddhist priests. While being in Daramshala producing a film on Tibetans, the saffron colour of priest’s robes induced feelings of tranquillity and meditation in me.
Golden is colour of skylight. It is colour of perfection, and thus it often was preferred background of Byzantine and Buddhist Icons. I was always fascinated by early Christian and Byzantine paintings, and their almost abstract representations of Virgin Mary and Christ.
Art is my perfect way of living because it places me somewhere in the middle of the scale of time, with past and future on opposed sides of that scale. It gives me strength and comfort in apprehending the Beyond.