Sirje Petersen

Sirje Petersen (Protsin)

Artist Statement"¨

I've never liked to explain a certain piece of work - if you've made a painting and that's how you wanted it to be - hopefully it can speak For itself and whatever it says to the viewer - it's the right message because there isn't such a thing as a wrong and a right message. Each person sees the same painting a bit differently.

First and foremost, I am influenced by everything I see, feel and experience. My working process has always been grounded in pleasure and aesthetics and I am not a bit ashamed of it. This belief guides me toward creating compositions that invite and allow the viewer to investigate its surface, its purpose, and its inner feelings.
Each my painting is unique with its very own shapes and colour, movement, pattern, and spiritual meaning.
The past, the present and the future have been intertwined.
This is a spiritual, autobiographical memory where I perceive my subjective time. The human body and color help me to visualize the thought, perception, questions - not knowing, if these will be answered.
To be outside time, to escape time's requirements -
where from? where to? where? - curiosity and urge to exit oneself,"¨to express and share... I am my own te...