Surprised by Evening Painting

My landscape art follows on my previous academic research into the depth and beauty that can be found in solitude. I see painting as a very personalised, subjective, emotional process. My creation is hardly ever an accurate depiction of an actual landscape scene. Most of the time it is a reflection of my memories woven with imagination and affected by my emotions, dreams, desires, the music I hear, poetry, and my love of nature. I am fascinated by unexpected - yet unspeakably beautiful and mysterious – encounters of light and dark, day and night, real and dreamy. In this understanding, my paintings mirror and penetrate the intricate depths of human mind itself. Mesmerised by bloody orange skies and the blackness of the trees filtered by own emotional states and memories, here I find the most powerful desire to create. Inspired by the likeness of the magical and real, spiritual and natural, twilight and dawn, I keep experimenting and developing tones with oil paints, often preceded by acrylics, pastels and watercolours. I usually start with an abstract underpainting, followed by the tonal applications of undiluted fine quality oil paints, applied in subtle blended layers. Final stages of the process involve the addition of bolder, thicker, more defined and textured oil colours, to create the desired perspective and atmosphere. I then leave the painting for some time, watching it for many days, until I am satisfied with the final result.