About me and my painting

Techniques and process

Early works were painted with tempera mixed with acrylic; later I worked mainly with acrylic paints, and in recent years I’ve been experimenting by combining them with other media such as coloured pencils and acrylic markers. I started painting after my university studies (Hispanic philology), when a painter friend gave me a set of paints. At first these were small works in small formats. In parallel I focused on drawing—practising sketches and looking for other forms of expression. Eventually my favourite medium became black fineliners of various thicknesses: tools that let me create literally anywhere and became my basic means of expression.

Themes in my paintings

When it comes to subject matter, in my paintings I’m primarily interested in colour and form in themselves. I treat a painting as a composition in which I look for harmony and relationships between individual elements. Nature is my starting point, so it stays present in my mind even when I paint forms that seem purely abstract. Another part of my work consists of variations on the theme of sky and clouds. When I paint them, I draw mainly on imagination—though the world around me is still a point of reference.

Drawing

The drawings I create are a world of lines and forms from which a human figure most often emerges—merging with them and becoming one whole, built from the same material. I mainly use black on white or white on black, sometimes adding colour accents with pencils or markers.

Music and other media

Beyond painting, I’m interested in music. I play guitar and piano. For me, music and painting share a lot: rhythm, composition, and the smooth transition from sound to sound, form to form, colour to colour. Painting has always been, in a sense, a musical activity for me, and every drawing or painting I make is created with music on. Sometimes I also paint on objects connected to music—such as guitar effects pedals, stands, and guitars. Occasionally I also work with ceramics.