Artist statement

When I paint, it is not to find answers; it is to give colors to my questions about life.

Artists like Avery, Borduas, Cézanne, Riopelle, Rothko, Rouault, and especially Kandinsky, influenced my style.

I have been more attracted towards abstraction, though sometimes I paint figurative works.

Some of my paintings reflect an intuitive expression carried on from the beginning of my artistic career.

I sometimes work simultaneously on two prospects (directions) side-by-side:

1° Towards interiority (inner space*).

2° External space**

My paintings often reflect a world of peace and light. Though some seem to show a somber world, there is always space that shows hope; because everything has a meaning and value.

Reminiscence of past traveling, impressions, imaginary landscapes and seascapes, whether inspired by nature, music, people, and past or present painters, are a reflection towards interiority. The external space nearly always turns into the inner space.

Because painting is a way of expressing my own and deepest feelings about life, its meanings and the people.

I paint to be truthful to myself; I paint because of a strong inner desire to do so.

*I refer to the term "inner need". (Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the spiritual in art, pp. 26, 33, 36, "Inner need means primarily". The impulse felt by the artist for spiritual expression and also the actual expression itself.

** Outer need: ""which never goes beyond conventional limits, nor produces other than conventional beauty. The "inner need" knows no such limits, and often produced results conventionally considered "ugly". But "ugly" itself is a conventional term, and only means "spiritually unsympathetic", being applied to some expression of an inner need, either outgrown or not yet attained. But everything which adequately expresses the inner need is beautiful."