Frozen Lake Painting

My paintings are autobiographical. They cherish memories and capture some precious moments of everyday life. Through portraits I study character, emotions, mood and essence. My brush work is loose and gestural but I strive to achieve likeness, capture personality and depict eyes as “alive", as if my subject is about to say something. I am inspired by charming places I have visited and by people I met there. Dancers fascinate me with their passion for beauty of the movement and joy of performing. Painting old towns feels like special kind of traveling. In some quiet, unobtrusive way they hide so many different lives and destinies but also have a life of their own. To me, painting is a fascinating journey through the landscape of the simultaneity of beauty and fragility of life.