The basis of my artistic expression lies in realism. I have always been inspired by images from life, especially by strong, striking characters that in many ways reflect our time. In my art I often explore the issues of interaction between the natural world and humans; as part of nature, but often completely separated from it, or perceiving it only through the prism of technological progress. I am also very inspired by the aesthetics of the female body, and a woman’s closeness and synchronicity with nature. Often I use self-portraiture for my research in this direction.

My main tools are light and color, with which I convey the general mood, atmosphere. I also pay a lot of attention to detail in my paintings, as I believe that the ability to trace details allows the viewer to interact with the work much more deeply, each time finding something new in it and revealing hidden meanings. I work in traditional oil painting techniques, which allow me, with the help of impasto and glazing, to plastically convey color depth, texture and work out volumes for my projects.

Through my travels, I have been lucky enough to see in person some of the great works by artists I admire, and these continue to influence my works over the years.   For example, you can see references to the aesthetics of David Hockney and American pop art, as in the Splash project, where I also use bright colors and operate with flattened shapes. I was also greatly influenced by Egon Schiele and Lucian Freud with their anatomical depictions of human flesh, which can be seen in my recent Sun Gods project.

Through my projects, I explore the object-subject view on a character, going from a flat digital perception of a person to returning them flesh and vitality. Painting allows me to work with the subconscious of the viewer, operating with images from life, but constructing with them my own unique aesthetic reality, combining realistic images with abstraction, minimalism and other expressive techniques that work on the meaning that I want to convey.