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I’ve been painting for 30 years. It’s my passion. It gives me life and energy. The main idea behind my work is an impulse to create a burst of emotion that makes you go further, that makes you want to conquer the world. Vivid colors best express this. I paint large because it gives me room to breathe. I hate constraint. I value freedom and I want to express it through my art. I see larger than life and that’s what I paint.

I describe my work as new expressionism. My style is a fusion of brilliant colors, explosive gesture and figurative details with a contemporary resonance and appeal. My paintings are loaded with raw energy. They reflect intense emotions of love, passion, death.

Music provides a bubble in which I isolate myself from the world in the creative process.

The subject matter that interests me is the human body. I have no shame about it. It’s an object of beauty and an endless source of inspiration. I try to depict the body of men and women liberated from the censorship of puritanical attitudes.

New York City is raw, off limits. Within a few miles, you have access to the whole world. That’s why I choose to live and paint here. I get restless elsewhere. The city’s rhythm pulsates in my canvases.

Life is full of contradictions. I express these emotions with the contrasts and dichotomies I portray in any given painting. I bring it all together but there is never a resolution. It always remains a process, just like modern life. We live in a world of paradoxes and I’m always on the edge.

I have always believed that I have something to say and to bring to the world through my art. Nothing can stop me from saying it and following my vision, my dream. My gestural strokes reflect my unapologetic attitude - my drive for success, my restless dedication. I can’t imagine not painting. It’s my destiny.

Current Residence: New York City