My painting began with an experience before it became a search.

For as long as I can remember, I have carried a longing for something absolute; a deeper sense of communion with life. Then, at a certain point in my life, I began to experience the world around me as deeply alive. As if something beneath its visible surface could be felt, listened to, and entered into relationship with.

It changed the course of my life and left me with questions that still inhabit my work:

What animates us? What moves beneath what we can see? What makes us truly alive?

What I was experiencing needed to move, to circulate, to take form. Painting became a place where that could happen. Where something invisible could become gesture, colour, matter and form. It was around this time that painting, already present in my life, became a vocation.

With time, I began to recognise that same sense of aliveness in more ordinary encounters: a landscape, a relationship, the sea, a moment of silence. I rarely paint what I encounter directly. I paint from what it awakens in me.

Over the years, this search has taken shape through three recurring visual languages: Embodied Script, Deep and Vibrant.

Embodied Script opens.
Its invented signs loosen our instinct to name and understand, making space for movement, play, intuition and what can be felt before it can be explained.

Deep goes within and through.
Through layers, traces, covering and revealing, I return to the body, sensation and matter. For me, the invisible is not separate from matter. It is by going deeply into it that I begin to sense what animates it.

Vibrant lets what is alive move and take form.
Gesture follows gesture, colour follows rhythm. Sometimes the movement is quiet; sometimes intense or almost chaotic. Something that was latent finds expression.

These are not fixed styles, but different movements within the same search:

to open, to go through, to let live.

Creating requires both intention and openness. I choose, compose, build, erase and cover, while leaving enough space for something to emerge that I could not have arrived at through thought alone.

I participate. I listen, I choose, I respond. And something responds to me too.

For me, painting is a relationship with this current of life… a way of listening to it and allowing it to take form. Once the painting exists, it can enter into another relationship with whoever encounters it.

I am less interested in representing life than in creating the conditions for it to take form, and to continue living through relationship.