Ostrich in Shadow Painting

Painting is a language, too. A painting represents a whole story. An image speaks the language of feelings and emotions. Just like a writer, say, when telling a story, triggers completely different impressions in various people, an artist, too, speaks through the image he creates, not pondering extensively upon what he wants to express in his painting, and often even cannot put his sensations in words. After all, that is the job of professional art critics, who, if you’re lucky enough, can translate the image into words. I suppose, in my paintings and also in photographs, I am telling about the freedom of spirit, about nature, the humankind and people as such, even if no people can be seen in the picture. My wish is that people can start remembering and understanding the interdependence with nature, that they stop trying to subordinate it in every possible way, but rather remember that they are a part of the whole system. A horse — created by nature and improved by the people — is endowed with a magic force of attraction that a large part of the humankind cannot withstand. Myself among them. This is why I am speaking in my paintings through this creature. Open for commissions.