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What inspires me is the esthetics, the forms and most of all the colors. The creation process starts from a theme, a cultural aspect that I have seen or read about. I gather as many information and pictures as I need, landscapes, plants, animals, people, costumes, jewelry, ceremonies... I never do preparation sketches, I draw directly on canvas and let my feeling guide my hand. I usually start with a face, which may change through the process. Then I draw lines separating different spaces both in the face and in the background. These lines define the geometry of my portraits, and may evolve during the process of painting. Finally, I choose the dominant colors of the painting. The colors are a big part of my work; they make me involved in my work and give me the inspiration through the process of creation. To keep the intensity of the colors I apply oil paint directly from the tube on the canvas, without mixing them previously, which gives them brightness and permits to keep the raw energy of the color and to give a positive feel to my paintings, a higher vibration. The colors carry me through the creation, and give soul to the paintings, while the use of geometric shapes expresses the different facets of ourselves. I think of it like a crystal ever developing itself, growing in straight lines and constructing the portrait piece by piece, like the atoms organizing themselves into structures creating the matter that makes us, and like all of us organize into structures that make the various cultures and societies on the planet, and ultimately the humanity.
For now, I stay with Bali dance Legong, when it comes to my paintings about Indonesia. The first one was about Legong and Bali in general but here we turn to the specific dance - CANDRAWASIH DANCE or "birds of paradise". Our main figure is a Legong dancer dressed in a traditional dress for this specific dance imitating the movements...
Visiting Brazil, I passed by Salvador, not really sure what to expect. The city looks like a city in Portugal, beautiful houses, cute square, but the story behind it is much more interesting. Salvador is known by his black population because, during the slave trade, 40.000 slaves where broth to this city. I had no idea how to put that...
When I went to Mexico, I knew that I wanted to do a portrait of Frida Kahlo but didn't know it would look like this. You can say I really like her, not her work - HER. Her artwork, of course, I appreciate but her spirit I love. When I visited her house, I could see why she was inspired,...
Oaxaca, city in the same-name region of Mexico was recommended to me by my friend as a "very Mexican city". In a way, yes it does look exactly as I've seen Mexico on the big screen but it is so much more, it's a city of art. Part from it being so beautiful and colorful, Oaxaca is filed with...
I'm not a part of any religion but am extremely interesting in all of them, because I found that they contain ages of wisdom, for those who would look. One of the religions I always felt close to was Buddhism and trough years of learning about it I gown more and more interested in Hinduism. Today Hinduism is the religion that I'm intrigue with....
This Mayan goddess is connected to different goddesses or better say is a goddess viewed in many different ways. I didn't go to much here in all her aspects like I did for Mahakali, but I was more concentrate about painting her as I've saw her in relief in Palenque and surround her with an environment of that beautiful space. ...
In my first painting about Indonesia, I wanted to put two things that had left an impression on me: rice fields and Bali dance - Legong.
You don't have to look into details to be inspired by Cuba! Colorful houses, the way women are dressed, their music, Cubans cigars...
When you come to Mexico, you will see all this colorful objects and tapestries that will surely mark your trip to Mexico. The detail drawing and all those colors will attack your attention and you will probably take a souvenir. Every time I look at Huichols Art, I feel a positive energy of colors so it just came natural to me to paint it....
I could have called this painting Brazil because I've used a woman dressed as a girl on carnival in Rio surrounded by jungle of Amazon connecting south and north of the country. But for me, I really wanted to paint Amazon and in same time couldn't see a better costume to represent it.
Plants, birds, butterflys, coatis and eart trumbeling waters - IGUAZU, the most beautiful border between two contries.
I knew I had to visit cenotes when I was in Mexico. It was one of the first sugestions of my friends that I had.
Unnamed was inspired by the book of Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. To be presize it's inspired by the first chapter of the book - Taoing. The following text is a long explination of this painting that was intended for art competition with a theam IDENTITY.
The word "pow wow" is derived from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning "spiritual leader".
Inspired by a wonderful leader and a very wise woman. Cleopatra was a very educated woman that knew medicine and science, but become known for her affair. Here she is surrounded by a plant of papyrus which is a symbol of wisdom. Her dress is like waves of river Nile, over her head is the sun and in between them...
Bahia, a region of north-est of Brazil. The background is inspired by the colorful fasades of Salvador. Plants around are the one I've saw in a park. The woman is dressed in Afro Brazilian traditional dress and you can see woman dress like this all over Salvador.
Painting has a girl dressed in traditional maridge closes. Sourounding her are the letters that you could see all around Himalaias, written on the stones on side of the road. Letters here should be read from left bottom corner, circulary to the right. Its Om mani padme hum - one of the most known mantras. The lotus flowers are all...
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