Today, we all live in a world of constant noise and overstimulation. We face checklists upon checklists everyday, with most of them too long to ever be fulfilled.
We try to keep up with our jobs, our families and, now more important than ever, the health and wellbeing of our families, loved ones, and ourselves.
I have always been on the hunt for rest, silence, peace and contemplation. My guess is, you are very much like me, that’s why you are here. It took me some time to finally understand the constant core of my work, no matter how the outer subject or topic of a collection may change. It’s all about the desire of living slow and finding places of happiness, peace and silence in our everyday lives.
I collect these experiences and places wherever I go, like a hungry little hamster, and try to convert it into something lasting. Recently, I came across an article speaking of “Time Capsules“ in art. It basically means that the artist tries to enclose the feelings and energy he experienced in a specific moment and wraps them into a piece of art.
That is until a visitor or viewer decides to interact with the art and unlocks the life energy stored within. That’s why I paint slow. That’s why my paintings often have a certain size, because they work like doors to another life experience. That’s why my output is very limited. My art is made out of my experiences and my life’s energy.
I want my clients and collectors to have access to these feelings of peace, joy and happiness in their own sacred, silent places at home. My paintings are rarely exchanged and customers speak of them like they speak of a new family member, showing that, in some ways, my work lives and breathes on its own.
What I discovered over the years is that clients and collectors often see a part of their own life in my work. They resonate with it and enter their own memories of traveling, recharging their own experiences of joy and happiness through my work. My work is like a door to the best parts of their lives.
My work is as much about you and your story as it is about me and my life. If you fall in love with my work, it will serve as a place of silence and contemplation within your home, as a well of energy and a daily reminder to dwell in your own happy memories. It will provide you with a place to breathe and recharge. It will wrap you and sooth you with its energy.