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Photography

I enjoy photography. To me, it’s a very spontaneous medium. I don’t spend a lot of time planning the pictures. They just happen. A bit like my paintings.

Accountant by day, artist by night

My paintings are mostly inspired by landscape, though not always about specific time and place. I am interested in exploring colour and space, suggesting both tension and harmony that exist in nature. Painting is my emotional response to my environment.

I started painting in watercolours and later discovered chalk pastels. I now paint mostly in oils. My oil painting technique is a reflection of my early days doing watercolour paintings – I work in thin diluted layers. Also, I will often apply paint with cloth, which gives me a more direct contact with the canvas.

When I start a new piece, I have no preconceived idea of the end result – I react to each application of paint. The final piece is an emotional response to whole process of painting.

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