ABOUT

Artist Statement

My work explores the fragile thresholds between memory and presence — between what is seen and what is felt. Through a process of layering — image transfer, collage, acrylic, charcoal, and colored pencil — I build and erase, revealing traces rather than certainties. Each surface becomes a kind of palimpsest, where fragments of text, photography, and gesture overlap like shifting layers of recollection.​ I am drawn to the emotional texture of time: how joy and loss, light and shadow, often coexist within a single moment. The colors in my paintings may radiate warmth and vitality, yet beneath them lies an undercurrent of longing — an awareness that every bright instant is already slipping into memory. My compositions aim to hold both: the immediacy of experience and the quiet echo that follows. Working across themes of presence, absence, and perception, I see painting as an act of remembrance — not of fixed stories, but of sensations that linger. Each piece becomes both a landscape and a state of mind, a meeting place between the outer world and the inner one.

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My practice grows out of a lifelong interest in people, places, and stories — an interest rooted in my background as a social anthropologist and writer. My research has taken me to India, the Balkans, and West Africa, where I have explored themes such as ageing, human trafficking, and child labor. These experiences have heightened my awareness of fragility, resilience, and the complexity of human experience, and they continue to inform my art in subtle and unexpected ways.

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My process is intuitive, playful, and open-ended. I rarely begin with a fixed plan, preferring to respond to the materials, the emerging composition, and the layers of memory and emotion that surface as I work. At times, abstract landscapes appear — rooted in places I have visited or imagined; at other times, the works evoke more intangible inner states shaped by feeling and reflection. I often integrate my own photographs, introducing figurative elements within abstraction and adding narrative layers that hint at memory and lived experience without prescribing a single interpretation.

For me, each artwork is a kind of visual diary — a way of collecting fragments of experience and transforming them into something that is at once personal, open, and evocative. I hope my works spark curiosity and quiet joy, inviting viewers into spaces of wonder and reflection where recognition and ambiguity can coexist. My practice is, above all, a meditation on memory, presence, and the human condition — an attempt to capture fleeting moments, subtle emotions, and the poetry that resides in everyday life.