I think art is the flight from everyday reality, but it is also a metaphor for the human spirit in its search for truth, freedom and perfection. Art is also about expression. My paintings are about self-expression, which I try to create by the use of a personal form of style. When I paint, I feel that there is something inside myself that calls for expression. I am interested in creating art that is not just pretty or decorative or imitative, but that has a harmonious balance, a rhythmical movement, a beautiful use of color and creates a personal, definite visual language.

Art provides a ladder of escape. It is a way of awakening in oneself not only a sophisticated way of looking at life, but also a way of seeing beyond the limits of the false world. In art, I find the awakening of different types of fascinations that leap out to greet me. I like to think that art does not have to depend on what we see in nature, but upon how we have changed what we see. For me, imagination and poetry are two helpful resources. They aid me in selecting, controlling, arranging and organizing in my paintings what I experience. The English art critic Ruskin once said, "music is the poetry of sound, and painting is the poetry of sight."

My painting is primarily abstract. I think we live in a very complex age and abstract art reflects the complexity of our era.

I find form (abstract form often in my case) and color two very important elements in painting. Form is the separating line between various surfaces of color and has the power of inner suggestions. Form can stand alone; it can represent an object, a figure or an abstract element in space. I do not think that the subject has any new additional value to the success of a painting, but I find color extremely important. Like form, color is capable of arousing emotions. It is also capable of transferring vibrant feelings and a spiritual harmony. As far as the abstract element in a painting, I think it reflects a person's expression of life. Life, today tends to be more abstract because people, especially cultivated people, tend to turn away from natural things. Abstract art also has a more direct freedom of expressing the universal. In figurative art the representation of the object can be too predominant. By eliminating the object and by replacing it with simpler geometric forms we tend to get closer to the essence of things. I find that geometric forms are more powerful in expressing emotions.

I am interested in creating paintings that have a personal style, a visual space, some type of novelty, meaning and visual language. I am intrigued in combining the abstract, the geometric, the imaginary and the spiritual with ambiguous organic forms.

Art can have a powerful effect on you. It can change your life, it can make you look at things differently, it can influence your way of thinking, it is a way of reflecting life through a rhythm of forms, lines, color and relationships. It is also a way, like Piet Mondrian said of seeing life "as a microcosmos in a macrocosmos."