Duality II Painting

After more than fifteen years, I have returned to painting. This return feels like an internal rebirth, deeply connected to my personal journey. When my child was born, art had to step aside. It was a time when security and stability took precedence over creative freedom. As a goldsmith, I found the stability that allowed me to support my family, but it distanced me from my most personal form of expression – painting. The return to art came suddenly, driven by an inner unrest that had been intensifying in recent years, especially due to relationship turmoil. I realized that my paintings had to be more than just expressions of ideas – they had to become spaces for introspection, for questioning and seeking balance, both within and in relationships. The textures and layers I work with carry the weight of time and experience. Every surface I shape tells its own story about relationships, attachments, limitations, and the process of renewal – what breaks down but also what rebuilds. My choice to embrace abstraction was not accidental. I see it as a way to capture what words cannot express. It’s a space where thoughts and emotions can flow freely, where the viewer can find their own interpretations and inner answers. At the same time, abstraction frees me – it allows me to keep my vulnerable parts hidden in the multiplicity of colors and forms, though I know that in this way, I am revealing the most. My work intertwines relationships – between the visible and the hidden, between the personal and the collective, between the past and the present. Living in a small village in Eastern Europe, in Slovakia, I have learned to perceive silence and emptiness not as voids, but as spaces where deep introspection can ripen. This environment, which might seem isolated, is for me a source of inexhaustible creative strength. As a young artist, I was deeply inspired by Egon Schiele’s work, particularly his ability to convey the depth of human emotions and vulnerability. This fascination stays with me today, though now in a different form – not as literal representation, but as an effort to penetrate beneath the surface, to where the deepest movements of the human heart take place. My works explore the deepest layers of human experience – wounds and their healing, but also the endless search for balance between fragility and strength. In every relationship, in every break and reunion, I seek answers to questions deeply rooted in all of us.