Life Below Zero#1 Painting

Initially a handmade jewellery artist and now a painter. The creative process of my work is the sum of my past skills, my visual concepts and basic key elements: the exploration of the subconscious through the use of colour and improvisation, while employing the physicality of paint through textures and juxtapositions in a process of catharsis. Not often noticeable, I sometimes rework a painting through layering and texturing, symbolizing how circumstances and life itself change and alter over time, using my hands in the process as if that change is the product of our own hands, as if one could maintain control over life. The work reflects the relationship I have with myself and the existence/void, that leads into the necessity of embedding these emotions into the medium - the canvas. While I allow a certain amount of expectation and mediation between reality and fiction through the painting, the rest is left to chance to the viewer’s attention which inevitably exposes the randomness and subjectivity that permeates existence. “If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts.” - Francis Picabia wrote. Not embracing one particular style, I’d rather keep cycling through styles and experiment with unorthodox techniques and ideas. This allows me to embrace real freedom in creation while going through a catharsis of real emotions.