Artist statement

I have been drawing for as long as I can remember.

My earliest memory of making art is from around the age of six—I drew something glowing, rainbow-colored light radiating outward from the paper. I didn't fully understand what I was making. I simply had to make it.

In school, I once painted like everyone else — copying what was in front of me, going nowhere. Then one day I simply painted differently from the rest. My teacher praised it. That was when I understood: if I painted what I truly wanted to paint, that was enough.

My work moves between abstraction and figuration, intuition and structure, accident and intention. Sometimes I begin with a vivid mental image; other times, the work reveals itself slowly through experimentation. I am drawn to moments where unexpected forms begin to breathe with their own presence.

Although I once worked mainly with watercolor, oil paint, and pastel, digital tools have expanded my possibilities enormously. Yet the essential impulse remains unchanged: the desire to create something that does not already exist in the world.

I admire art that elevates human spirituality—works whose impact echoes beyond their time. In my own way, I continue pursuing that intensity.

One of the approaches I explore is inspired by dodecaphony—the 12-tone technique developed by Schoenberg. Just as it treats all twelve tones as equals, I sometimes apply a similar principle to color, allowing no single hue to dominate the canvas. It is one of several ways I search for a visual language that feels genuinely my own.

Rather than committing to a single style, I pursue each vision where it leads—which is why my work spans multiple series, each with its own language.

Much of my process happens in solitude. I can spend countless hours immersed in a single piece, struggling, adjusting, destroying, rebuilding. Even now, after decades of creating, I still feel that I am chasing something just beyond my reach. Perhaps that endless pursuit itself is the reason I continue to paint.

When someone comes across my work long after I am gone, a part of me will still be there.