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Statement

My painting can be summed up in two words: colour/emotion and movement

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It is born out of surrendering to chance, out of the desire to let the material speak for itself. I work with stained glass paint, which I pour directly onto the surface, without the use of brushes or control tools. This gesture of releasing the paint is also a gesture of freedom: I abandon the rigidity of form to make room for the unexpected, the raw emotion, the organic movement that emerges from the flow of the paint itself.

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My works are built from intense, translucent patches of colour that expand, overlap and merge in a fluid, unpredictable dialogue. Each painting is an unrepeatable experience - a kind of dance - in which time, gravity and matter determine the rhythm and outcome. What results is always a reflection of the moment: an emotional, intimate, spontaneous record.

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The abstract allows me to explore the invisible. I don't try to represent the world, but to feel it. To convey through colour and movement what runs through us but cannot be seen - the internal pulse, the states of the soul, the vibration of life. My works don't require rational understanding, but sensory surrender. I want each viewer to be able to find themselves in them in their own way, recognizing fragments of their own emotional world.

Stained glass on canvas

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