Ordered portraits
For me, the most favourite detail of every portrait are the eyes. Those moments are something very special for me, something absolutely magical and extremely intimate. They are most similar to the feeling of a new life being born. That is when I, myself, can feel my heart being overtaken by joy, because I use colours to create energy, life, a new reality as a reflection of an eternal being. It is an indescribable experience.
However, if it does not happen, and the eyes are not “alive”, the painting does not get a second chance. I do it all again on a new canvas or paper.
People are the motive that has always inspired me. Through their faces I can feel that source of life, that never-ending flow, which, even when it stops, continues living on in a more subtle way. It all continually reminds me of the eternity, which I deeply believe to be present in everything visible and invisible. That cloak of infinity rests in people’s eyes and their faces, even when I paint people who are physically no longer with us. Each face has its own story, the one and only, and each one bears the picture of its own life, which is full of surprises, emotions, and which has its own chronology.
The face remembers everything. Even the things that we would sometimes like to hide stay carved in the curves and lines of the face. Not to mention the fact that the look inside cannot be feigned. It simply represents what we are. No other part of human body contains so many records of life, like the human face does, and this is why I am so irresistibly attracted to it and why I feel happy looking at it and transferring it into another form of living. I feel the joy of giving and receiving, all at the same time.
Works made using following techniques: oil painting on canvas, gouache on paper, drawing, mosaic, egg tempera on board.
However, if it does not happen, and the eyes are not “alive”, the painting does not get a second chance. I do it all again on a new canvas or paper.
People are the motive that has always inspired me. Through their faces I can feel that source of life, that never-ending flow, which, even when it stops, continues living on in a more subtle way. It all continually reminds me of the eternity, which I deeply believe to be present in everything visible and invisible. That cloak of infinity rests in people’s eyes and their faces, even when I paint people who are physically no longer with us. Each face has its own story, the one and only, and each one bears the picture of its own life, which is full of surprises, emotions, and which has its own chronology.
The face remembers everything. Even the things that we would sometimes like to hide stay carved in the curves and lines of the face. Not to mention the fact that the look inside cannot be feigned. It simply represents what we are. No other part of human body contains so many records of life, like the human face does, and this is why I am so irresistibly attracted to it and why I feel happy looking at it and transferring it into another form of living. I feel the joy of giving and receiving, all at the same time.
Works made using following techniques: oil painting on canvas, gouache on paper, drawing, mosaic, egg tempera on board.