Painting

How did you become a painter?

I have always been surrounded by painting as an art form. My grandmother paints, my mother paints, and they have always encouraged me to paint, but I think for the longest time I was quite frustrated with this art form because I wasn’t patient enough. I had spent a couple of years, trying to understand colors and how they work.

Eventually, in 2018 or perhaps 2019, I painted something just for fun and I realized how pleasing it was and how I was afraid of this art form for so long for no reason.

I realised how much fun it was, how much I loved it and eventually I jumped to more canvases, and here we are.

During the summer of 2020, I thought perhaps that it was time to try something else. I had a canvas that was hanging around for a couple of years and I finally painted on it and it was awesome, it was a great experience. That just made me want to paint more canvases.  I liked that for the first time in my life, I could create precise images from my mind. It was like my mind was speaking directly to the canvas with no words because words are so complicated. Painting is just pure thoughts on the canvas.

What would you say is your style and who is your inspiration?

I don’t get inspiration from a specific painter, I mean I admire some of Vincent Van Gogh’s work and Frido Khalo. There are many paintings that touch me, but I would say that my painting does not fit into a precise genre.

Jazz music inspires me, but emotions come from the words in pop-rock music which inspires me in a good way. It is funny because I write but I am unable to express my feelings as well as my favorite musical artists and I think that I have found in music, the way that I have been feeling for years and that inspires me more than anything.

So what medium do you use in painting?

I like acrylic paint because I can apply it fast, as I am impatient and I like things to go fast and to paint quickly. I like electronic music in a way that is very similar to painting, as it is like taking sounds that don’t exist and trying to paint them as a track and trying to create something distorted or written.