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Statement
My paintings explore the power of colors. As a physicist I am aware of the laws of optics and I know why the sky is blue or that the human eye is most sensitive to the wavelength of green radiation. The knowledge that there are laws that describe the world helps me find laws that describe beauty in art, and it subconsciously influences my art.
When I paint I start with a mood, a feeling, and an atmosphere that I want to express. Themes I paint include peacefulness, calm, excitement about a new start, sadness, or loneliness. Sometimes I start with a poem. I use colors and shapes that can express these feelings, show loneliness or happiness. I constantly discover which colors, shapes, brushstrokes, textures that best express what I want to show.
In previous years I painted mostly portraits and still life paintings. This taught me the importance of composition, selection and combination of colors. I often modified the colors I saw in nature and used intense, stronger colors to enhance the intensity of the painting.
Abstract paintings allow me more freedom to experiment but they are also more difficult because everything on the canvas has to be invented by myself. I apply the principles that I learned from my figurative work, the harmony of colors, the importance of balance in shapes, the interest in marks of different size and texture. Sometimes a shape appears in my abstract painting that reminds me of a mountain, a sail, a lake… I develop these “accidents” that help to express the idea I want to convey.
My ultimate goal is to make peoples’ lives more beautiful with my paintings. I want my paintings to be the visual equivalent of a beautiful soprano aria, full of color, emotions, passion, and beauty.
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