Ship "Saintly Alexander in a storm". Painting

I like seclusion. It allows me to merge with the whole world, to feel an endless depth of phenomena, objects or thoughts, to be a conductor of the world of God, to merge with Him - here is that moment, when I begin to paint a picture. It does not require sitting in front of an empty canvas with a paintbrush. That is the next step. This is my process. The picture is born somewhere outside of you, and you have to be absolutely pure to be able to merge with nature. Painting is poetic. It is not only about the artist, it is Creation. It is like an image of a person, his form, and yet beyond the person himself. Image is endless, so it is only possible to contemplate. For me a stone is a metaphor. I compare stones with the world. There are different stones: stone - a landscape, stone - a fish, stone - an animal, stone - a person, stone - a sign. It is fascinating to scrutinise each stone. Each one is reality and abstraction simultaneously. Listen, observe the silence of the stone. It is eternal in its depth. Each picture has a life, a mystery in itself, something unfathomable, which opens in time. I am enthralled by the motion inside a painting and the measure of its depth. I try to feel the picture, see it with a sharp inner vision, perfect the finest details by this sensation. Technical performance is secondary. You have to reach perfect accuracy with a single brush stroke. It is an enormous internal tension, which makes the artist disappear. Extreme concentration is the highest moment of creation. The subject of the painting should "disappear" and give way to an abstract empathy. This is the language of metaphors and image - the wisdom of the past and the constant development of the future. My motto: "The world of art is created by understanding the world itself" . V. Grabovsky.