A few paintings from earlier times
When I discovered painting in 1993, it made me the happiest person in the world. I just wanted to apply oil paint with a brush on a canvas and that was it. Did I not have any ambition? Maybe it was humility? There I was, holding a brush in my hands, standing in front of a canvas, smelling the aromatic perfume of oil paints and putting colors on a prepared fabric. I could have been in a church being married to God - it felt like it. Never again I wanted to be separated from that sacred feeling. It had been a mystery and a mystical experience - until it was over. The paintings here are from a later period. After the initial phase of complete bliss, I fell into a creative hole and had difficulties to escape from it. I resolved to go studying arts and find tools, which would help me during artistically meager periods. Did I find tools? I don’t think so, not really. Through the years and the struggles, I found the trust, that there will always be inspiration and that it is possible to take it from there, one step at a time.
Malaga beach 2001
Henri Jacobstraat Amsterdam 2000
Chinatown NYC 2003
IFEMA Madrid 2003
Retiro 2003
Lanzarote 2003
Man with toothstick 2004
Retiro Dancer 2004
La Canebière Marseille 2005
Indian Mermaid 2005 with a curious Robin
Eye of the Indian Mermaid, embroidery
Parc de Bruxelles 2007, painting with embroidery
