Where to start, how to get inspired….
Some people ask me, how and when I started…. The answer is easy, I have always liked painting. Painting was an antidote to stress, a way to the magical world of fantasies and dreams or to express emotional states. That’s how I started. Getting rid of emotions was my inspiration and I was relatively young. I did not give my creations too many thoughts at this stage.
The road to becoming an artist was longer though. Because of my profession as an academic teacher, I used painting in an analogy to literature and as a didactic element in the interpretation of works. The inspiration was lying in symbolic. I was playing with it. This is the time when thoughts started to be important. The painting technique however was secondary.
You will still be able to find some paintings from the past under “Other Artwork”, when the subject was influenced by symbolism. One could find in them the features of magical realism, which will continuously assist me throughout my artistic carrier.
I knew there will be more to come but I was not ready yet. And then I remembered the day when suddenly something changed. I have always been fascinated by nature, its colours, changing perspective, single details. The camera was assisting me everywhere I went. I sat on the plane, staring out of the window in the dusk light, trying to make sense of the shapes below me. I admired the variety of colours, structures and changing textures and wondering how others perceive reality. And the desire to paint was unbearable. I had to wait another two weeks before returning from my trip, but that was the moment when I became an artist in my own mind.
I wanted to create an impression of layers, capture the moment. I have been inspired by the relativity of perception and fascinated by diffusing and blending shapes in the micro and macro space. I tried to capture the microscopic world so close that it begins to speak with its own language, revealing the texture and the depth that has escaped our senses at first glance.
I am looking for inspiration in macrophotography as well as in sensation of different materials and surfaces, tree barks, stones, dry or wet soil, plants. Everything can be relative seen from very close or very far. Let’s wake up our imagination together.
Please enjoy browsing and thank you for being part of my journey.