Approach and Sources of Inspiration
Colours, I would say, are of great
concern and a passion to me. They inhabit me with ravishing delight and this I wish to
transmit in my art. Colours like parchment, desert sands, yellow, red brown and dark
ochre, red, fire red, red on red, life red and the red bodhisattva lotus; hot coppers that
dance to the rhythms of life like a warm Brazilian ballad, from Salvador de Bahia; gold
and the different shades of gold, the colour of the sacred dimension, of the transcendent.
Because I feel that somehow deep within me gold is there, like a presence, gold appears
often in my paintings. At other times, to convey an aura of mystery, a refreshing touch of
blue, and seldom, a dash of emerald or Irish spring green symbolizing rebirth and the
renewal of life.
I see my body of work as two long
rivers of the same essence blending into one. One is "quote-art" and the other,
"free-calligraphy". Of the "quote-art", I would like to mention that,
like fine liquor, I macerate and filter them through the colours, light and sands of time
in order to distill their essence and so transmit some of the wisdom and at times kindly
humour of the masters by a pictorial work of art that stands complete in itself. My other
sources of inspiration are Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars and certain poets
from the Orient. It is not by chance that these quotes are found in my paintings; they
inhabit the core of my life and inspire me through my journey in time. Quotes written,
engraved, furrowed into my paintings at times very evident and at times less visible at
first sight, more often starting from the base going upward in a vertical flame-like way
of writing, thus creating a parchment who’s colours and movement convey the
tranquillity, unity of space and unique essence present in a particular painting and
quote As for "free calligraphy", I am inspired by signs
and symbols like the mandala, the bindu, prana, the lotus, sahasrara, the circle, the fire
triangle, the phoenix and various talismans that result in rich and creative units,
initiating perhaps a pictural language one day accessible to all of mankind.
