I study the concept of alienation in my paintings. That's the moment when an individual experiences of being left outside of society, the state where he loses his familiar everyday rituals and is left floating in an empty space. There will not be so much hate left, only indifference. I approach the subject from a serious perspective, but also with humor. I believe that a statement works better for by passing the "little side roads".

The technique I use is the sometimes arduous and tedious layer painting. Painting finds form at the same pace with the slow churning of ideas and sometimes I paint quickly to maintain the sense of the momentary. To start a new painting one has to first build the basis. I use multiple layers of a resin and oil color mix. It sometimes takes even weeks to get just the right effects. Thin and thick layers gives the painting its depth and resin to give the colors a certain kind of glow.

I consider it important that the message of a painting should be a type of an undertone - therefore the result, the painting itself, is more than just a one-dimensional statement. I want to provide the viewer with an opportunity to engage their own emotional premises to their art viewing experience but most importantly, the painting is to act as an aesthetic whole. … Read More