"Amsterdam in Mid-September" Painting

I'm Andrei Voica, a professional artist living in London, UK. I fell in love with painting at a very young age - I was about 5 when my dad bought me my first watercolours. He noticed that I enjoyed drawing and painting and he encouraged me to carry on. I can say he was and has since been one of my biggest supporters. I then discovered oil painting and I knew that this is what I wanted to do. My painting skills have developed during my 8 years of academic art studies at the High School of Fine Arts "Igor Vieru" in Chisinau, Moldova. The distinctive features of my art are the bold, vivid colours I use in my paintings and the alla prima technique, which is a direct painting approach where paint is applied wet on wet without letting earlier layers dry. I have developed a personal painting ritual. All my artworks are completed within a single session, which means 9 to 12 hours of continuous work on a medium-sized painting. I don't eat or drink during this time, because fasting helps me keep my concentration and preserve my energy for the artwork. I put my heart and soul into each painting I create. I have chosen impressionism as my style of painting because I think it is the best way to paint nature. It is expressive, eye-catching and it provokes the viewer to interpret the artwork in their own way and to find something that is close to their heart.