My paintings could be seen as an experiment in synesthesia. I, the artist, am synesthetic. To me, every form, sound, number, letter, or person can be distilled into a color. Every thing has a color that it is bound to. Much of my synesthetic code is instinctive. Nature is green, as my painting Wild Nature so clearly expresses.
Let's talk about light. Light in the pictorial realm has been a subject of study for centuries. Each artistic period had its tricks and ways of representing light, from the use of whites, to the use of harsh contrasts, to the fragmentation of brushstrokes into various particles of light/color. All the art literature around light in different...
My technique of introducing LED lights into my paintings was born from two impulses that, deep down, are intertwined: my human nature and my artist self. I'm a person who delights in contemplating the world—wandering through life, through the countryside—is what ignites my spirit to paint. However, I recognize my limitations as a human being, and...