Artist's Statement

In my art, through my compositions, technique, and even the materials I use, I reflect the beauty and magic of the world; I paint in vibrant, luminous colours, rich in texture and relief.

I use coloured historic mortar as a new, complete and complex visual art medium - the successful result of my decades of arduous and lonely research and experimentation: in each piece, I combine Renaissance Sgraffito, genuine Fresco, and painting with coloured historic mortar. I use only natural materials, which I prepare myself from base ingredients – sand, lime, water, and a handful of oxide pigments. Working with historic mortar in my technique is challenging and requires effort, patience, dedication, and decades of experience, but I believe the result is aesthetically richer than with any other art medium: coloured historic mortar has an intrinsic brilliance, texture and expression which no other medium offers.

My art idols are the Dutch Golden Age masters: Rembrandt, Vermeer and Frans Hals, and in my work I strive to maintain the artistic engagement, intensity, and purity which characterized their masterpieces; not a day that goes by without me studying them, over and over. And like for them, my art offers portals to a spiritual space: I hope the viewer will feel drawn in, richer and uplifted.