Artist Statement

I think of painting as an internal landscape through which I explore and filter emotional states. The conceived picture plane is a lived experience that evolves through layers of paint.
Following an abstract style of inscriptive mark making, I operate with a very limited set of tools and a repetitive process of adding and (over-)layering marks. I mainly create panels, sometimes I paint directly on the wall. My focus is the nature and application of color, for which I am constantly developing my own technique.

The multiple layering and matt surfaces stem from my European academic upbringing and are particu- larly inspired by Italian Renaissance painters, such as Botticelli, Titian, Giovanni Bellini, and the frescos of Fra Angelico, while the intuitive and open-layered approach relates to American art—particularly to artists whose works draw from internal dialogue: Mary Heilmann, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly.

My tonality is shaped by nature’s palette which often aligns with the pre-digital color schemes found in Renaissance and Impressionist painting. Over time, I have been studying Monet’s Water Lilies series, fascinated by his translation of water, and atmosphere into color. Water is a floating plane and so are my surfaces.

Despite the reductive process of filtering, I maintain a minimalist sensibility. Each mark is imbued with personal history. The structure and transparency of layers offer an open-ended sensual encounter: un- derpaintings remain visible, brushstrokes come forward, and the marks migrate. At best, the artwork becomes a free form, inhabitable experientially as a living space.

My paintings are complex organisms with poetic simplicity: Following a highly personal concept, I distill the image from many sources until it enters into one composition (alike a formula). This process engages the entire panel. I use the sides for color tests and coincidental spatters, the backs to note and cross out titles until one emerges that matches to the simultaneously evolving painting.

My work bridges European tradition and American art, combining Old Masters’ techniques with transmitted alchemical wisdom and universal theories drawn from philosophy, mathematics, and astrophysics. Interwoven with autobiographical memory and everyday experience, painting becomes a seismographic motion—both a vehicle and a navigator.

I like art to be a liberated space. I seek quiet joy, an ambient character of my paintings offering self- connection. Painting as a surrogate for living to myself and others.

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