18/09/2025
People often ask me: ‘Do you ever loose your inspiration, your creative Spark?’’
NO. I never lose my inspiration, my urge to create, my obsession for the expression is relentless. There is so much depth and vulnerability in spending time on my own, looking within and around, exploring, experimenting, self-reflecting and soul-searching. I’ve been doing it for over 30 years and I still find that I have too much inspiration: a lifetime is never going to be enough time to create and materialize ALL that is in my mind. And that bothers me immensely. It is a small, persistent thought, that sometimes causes me to rush through my process, because I want to create this and that and more, ALL THE TIME.
Funnily enough, it is the very thing that makes me a not-so-patient person in my day-to-day life, with mundane tasks, because I do not want to lose a minute doing anything else but ART. It is the ironic duality of human existence, the limitlessness of our imagination and the mortal life we are given, that comes with a ticking clock and ‘end’ date.
Because the story behind my art is my story and sharing it was (and still is) the crucial element of development and drive as an artist. I understood what it all meant at my first exhibition years ago. People were there to connect with me and my work, to understand the unexplainable, to see through me, to talk, to have a DIALOGUE.
The more I am compelled to talk about behind the scenes’’ of my work, the more I reflect and the more I acknowledge the factors that were part of the journey - all of my MOODS and my FEELINGS, the music I was listening to, the book I was reading, the worries, the joys, the DREAMS, all what was inside that little head of mine while I was painting or drawing…All of that, shaped me as an artist in making.
Me. You. Us. We are born again each and every time we experience and learn something new, not about our pieces - those are just a reflection of us, but also about US and the world around us through our eyes. The dialogue, the connection that we establish with people through art, if we can command our storytelling, besides our skills, well... that’s where the magic happens. In soulful, authentic, passionate storytelling ART. Every person interprets it uniquely, yet it somehow knows what needs to be delivered into their awareness, so it shifts and morphs depending on who is looking and feeling into it... like a picture inside the kaleidoscope passed around from hand to hand, from eye to eye.
There is an immense pride and responsibility I feel towards my work. For everything that I am able to create and for all the artworks that will only ever live in the meanders of my mind. Limitations of my physical output, are sometimes frustrating, but never discouraging. Because my creative process is just the tip of the iceberg, it is what lives under the surface, down in the deep, that drives me, and it is primal, visceral, boundless and indispensable. And hopefully whatever I get to create in this life will continue to live long after I’m gone, will act as a timeless portal into the entire vast universe of my mind, will continue to tell my story.
xx
