Inspiration/Techniques / The Artist / Useful Info

What inspired me in the past?

As a nature lover this was my main inspiration, everything can be depicted in an amazing piece. Flowers, landscapes and animals were most of my subjects and I also was drawn to cityscapes. I created many paintings using my own imagination. Till this day, I'm still making pet portraits using references but my style has changed and developed a strong personal style, the portraits ending in a unique and expressionistic result.

From where do I take my inspiration today?

My style is becoming more and more loose, personal and expressionistic and every piece of artwork started to reflect my inner self. Lately, I take my inspiration from my own life experience, traumatic events, anxiety and nightmares. I feel like I'm at my best today just by putting myself on a canvas layer by layer, transforming all the process in a therapy. Some of the shapes may appear disturbing or emotional, that's the whole point and it supossed to make you feel the emotion.

Techniques: play by rules or make your own?

Painting more loosely allows me to experiment with different techniques, starting with pure chaos like intuitive shapes, splaters, using everything I have available: brushes, paletteknives, pieces of junk and my own hands. The list is endless and all I have to do is my subconcious to guide my hand and body. In the end, I'm taking advantage of the natural shapes I created on canvas and let them tell the story. The rules were made after experimenting and I prefer to make my own.

A particular medium or mixed media?

My main medium is acrylic.

Though I started in the past year to use everything: oil paint, oil pastels, pencils and pens and I feel like this isn't the end. Using all I have on hand and not being affraid of the new it made me grow as an artist, making my paintings more particular, more personal. I invested in all sorts of art supplies and sketchbooks, all of this becoming a necesary part of my journey. I ended up thinking that using other mediums made me better at using the main one: acrylic.