WATER VISIONS and SEA ABSTRACTIONS
Technique and aspiration
Through my oil paints I strive to keep the memory of every single stroke: pushing, carving, scratching and sculpting the material with a palette knife, directing and giving full meaning to each stroke. Oftentimes my brush seems to take over my consciousness as if with life of its own...
I try to stare at immensity beyond the naked eye, in an abstract and structural way without losing awareness of the world’s materiality. Colours, shapes, dimensions and structures are where my mindfulness and the Universe embrace. And the Sea is my mastered subject: epitomising the dualities of our world.
Rocks and currants, shades and lights, opaque and transparent... its organic impermanence reflects freedom and spirit.
Other painters whose spirituality and wildness were inseparable have always inspired me, like Rothko, Mondrian and Matisse; ever capable of inducing profound emotions and unexpected rhythms.
I construct my visual spaces from inside. Water is my oxygen.
My thoughts and emotions act together, in order to enrich my paintings. When looking at the ocean, I sense a mass of water but also a space which one can investigate. When I paint it, is as if my body can go through it as much as when I physically do so, with the addition that only then my thoughts become fluid, uncontaminated and truly free. However, is not about redemption only. It is about the deepest flow of emotional force and sacred power. Touching and vulnerable, taking us somewhere where we can at long last change ourselves.