1. Please tell us a little about yourself – your childhood, siblings, where you grew up, what you liked as a child, strange thoughts as a child/now, unique attributes, where you live now, etc.?  What is your earliest art memory?

I was born in artistic and creative surroundings.  My father and my grandfather were established artists, so my first art memory is also my first memory of a home. I literally grew up in my father’s studio, so even before I could walk, I was crawling on all fours on dried dripped paint on the floor.  It was like walking and growing up through an abstract painting—that is probably my earliest art memory. My mother was a fashion model and later a fashion designer. In many cases she was a muse for my father and often posed for my father as a model. Often sitting in the studio, she did all kinds of different poses with her hands, hair, etc.  These memories are probably locked within my mind and can also be partially seen in my paintings. Except for the usual children’s toys, my father’s big studio was my biggest playground. The studio had everything—sharpies were everywhere, tons of colors in various packaging, different kinds of drawing paper, canvases, sketches, art books, the smell of turpentine and stand oils—the thought of this erupts all senses; it was a place to learn and explore, and it still is. 

2. How do you describe your form of art, and how did you develop your art style?

My vision for art has been changing during the years, but I’ve always liked portrait drawings and paintings; it is of course, a combination of various art styles, artists, memories, etc. I didn’t necessarily develop my style on purpose; my style is basically an expressed synthesis of my collective inspiration and imagination. I remember as a youngster I really didn’t like abstraction; I couldn’t understand it; it looked so gimmicky to me.  But as the years passed, I really started to love and appreciate those works. It is a visual feeling from the almost perfect minimal to the controlled accidental outburst of hue emotions. In some of my paintings today you can definitely see those abstract blasts and backgrounds that blend with my figurative side.  Art, like everything else, is a never-ending learning process. The color in my works is sometimes fauvistic, wild and intensive, and often the complementary mergers of the colorings, posted one by another, shape the form, suggesting the third dimension. In my works some frozen action is happening – on some we can identify which is the action of the main actors (musicians), and on the others (because they are in imaginary and undefined areas), we can only presuppose it in accordance to our individual feeling (sadness, rage, resignation, questions, fear, crying, etc.). My portraits display restrained reaction and impression, which emphasize the characteristic dimension of the particular individual and the psychological insight of her/his soul.