My work is a balancing act between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the Northern and Southern cultures, expressing contrasting lived experiences, displacement and fragmentation. Since the eighties, I have completed multiple modular paintings with changing installations and user participation, giving painting a life beyond the studio.

I have developed an abstract vocabulary combining rigid geometrical shapes and free, gestural, strong calligraphic marks. Some works like the Encounter series, suggest collisions between a brushstroke and a grid, conflicts and clashes expressive of struggles in life and art.

The natural world represented in symbolic and metaphoric associations, the four elements and cardinal points, are a constant source of inspiration. I evidence essential forces and forms in nature from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

The emphasis of my work is on transformation and chance, prioritizing quality of form and technique. In my work, I want the viewer to experience refuge and self-reflection, and a certain harmony which I see as related to beauty and the spiritual, all very much needed in today’s world.