"Red Roses" Painting

Since childhood, I have struggled to understand the world around me. I often asked myself why it was the way it was and what meaning lay behind it.

At the same time, I always felt a deep need to experience life through art. Creativity was never simply a profession or hobby for me. It was a breath of air, a way to survive, to remain myself when the world did not always understand or support what was most important to me.

Through acting, architecture, photography, teaching and, eventually, painting, I gradually discovered different ways of seeing.

Photography taught me to look beyond appearance and to see the person behind the image. As I taught photography, I realized how differently we all perceive the same world — shaped by what we carry within us, by our earliest experiences, love, support, absence and pain.

Today, painting allows me to explore what cannot always be captured by a camera: inner states, tenderness, hope and the possibility of returning to oneself.

At the heart of my work is the idea that we can transform our way of seeing and find light even after passing through darkness.

My art is about finding light after darkness.