Sobre el Artista

Artist’s statement: My inspirations are nature and science. I like to deal with themes of physical science and the cosmos by tapping into the sheer wonder of life. I am interested in things that are invisible and cannot easily be apprehended by intellect, because I think that they are the eternal ones. My research reaches out into the endless energy that pervades the universe. In my paintings, I try to evoke vibrating fields of energy. Ultimately, it is a sense of equilibrium that I seek to express, a feeling of inner peace and balance towards the attainment of a divine state. Reminiscent of a dream voyage to another place, I evoke my own subconscious while revealing universal truths about the celebration of life. For me, painting is also a spiritual approach to life. The ideas for my paintings very often start as collages like this ones, which I have been making all my life from newspaper clippings, even while traveling. Surely my training as textile designer helps me to find the right balance of dark and light, movement and stillness. And some of these collages, like the following examples, find their way to a finished painting. I use color to immerse the viewer in emotion. (Red, for me, stands for passion and vital energy, while blue stands for calmness and the soul.) Having studied and worked as textile designer, composition and colors are very important to me and the final result must satisfy my concept of beauty and harmony. Like an architect, I like to construct my paintings layer by layer with high quality acrylics and pigments until I obtain the desired depth I want.