"Sicilian Blue" Painting

My art is driven by an exploration of the invisible and multifaceted layers of perception, translating present-moment sensations into reduced, minimalist visual forms. While painting has always been central to my life, my path was unconventional; I graduated in International Law and Marketing before spending several years in the advertising industry. In 2013, I fully dedicated myself to my artistic practice. My experience running a contemporary art gallery, together with my ongoing work as an art advisor, has further shaped my understanding of how artworks exist within space and how they are perceived - emotionally, physically, and relationally - by the viewer. At the core of my practice is an ongoing investigation of duality, perception, and interconnected systems. I am drawn to the tension between control and spontaneity, stillness and movement — not as opposites, but as interdependent conditions that continuously generate and redefine one another. My work engages with layered perception, frequency, and patterns of cause and effect, exploring how perception is structured through relationships, shifts, and continuity. I approach painting as a form of investigation - an open and evolving process in which structure emerges gradually through intuition, observation, and response. My practice is shaped by the understanding that outcomes arise through interaction rather than fixed intention, where subtle changes in conditions can generate unexpected shifts in form and composition. The canvas becomes a field of relationships in which balance, density, and tension develop organically over time rather than being fully predetermined. Each work begins with a singular impulse: a color atmosphere, a spatial tension or a subtle sensation. From this starting point, the painting unfolds through an attentive process of making, allowing unforeseen connections and structural coherence to emerge. My practice oscillates between two visual poles: airy, minimalist compositions and more dynamic, expressive works, each reflecting different conditions of perception and emotional intensity. Across both approaches, I seek to create spaces that invite focus and perceptual openness - works that hold a quiet tension between clarity and ambiguity, presence and transformation. Born in 1977, I currently live and work in Hamburg, Germany.