Artist’s Statement

Deep within ancient caves, where time echoes quietly and humans cast shadows on the walls, the first artists made an indelible mark on human history. These trailblazers, some 65,000 years ago, must have felt an urge to share their life stories through images. Today, I stand as a contemporary New Surrealist painter, influenced by what must have been similar compulsions driving those ancient hands to create a visual language.

In our shared past, a story unfolds from the marks made in those caves—a narrative not written in words but painted by prehistoric artists driven to convey the rhythms of their existence through images. The impulse to bridge the gap between their inner and external worlds were manifested in bold strokes and intentional lines from a restrained palette that still survive to this day on those cave walls. I feel a brotherhood with those people when I look at their work.

Much like those early artists, I navigate uncharted territories of visual expression. They aimed to communicate not just for personal catharsis but for communal understanding. Their marks were visual dialogues, inviting participation in the collective experiences of survival, hunting, rituals, and cosmic mysteries not much different from the thoughts and emotions that guide my work today.

As a contemporary artist, I'm drawn into the emotional currents that guided those ancient hands. The cave walls, once silent witnesses, now invite me to converse across time. I desire that my paintings act as contemporary gateways connecting us to those early artists who sought a universal language in visual art.

By working in New Surrealism, I strive for an esthetic balance between form and freedom, structure and spontaneity, and narrative and abstraction while exposing subconscious corners of my life. The same desire to communicate visually that must have driven those early human artists hopefully resonates in the balance of surrealism, representation, and abstraction of my own work.

Each canvas is a journey into the primal depths of my human experience. The surreal forms are fragments of stories and emotions laid bare for interpretation. I feel that in my process that I pay tribute to those ancient artists who, facing unknown futures too, found solace in expressing the known and felt.

Standing at the intersection of ancient inspiration and contemporary expression, I'm aware of the profound continuity that art provides. The emotional inspirations driving the first artists are the same guiding my brush today. We share a collective desire to communicate, leaving imprints of our stories to connect across time and space.

In essence, my artistic journey is an ongoing conversation with the past—an acknowledgment of the visual language invented by those who came before me and has not stopped evolving since.