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Summer Bouquet, oil on canvas was painted in summer 2019.
Which I particularly love about the summers is the abundance of flowers in the garden. I usually like to have a morning stroll around the flower beds, see what is new and pick some flowers for the bouquet. Sometimes I would bring a twig from the forest or use some weeds picked among the flowers to put among the bouquet flowers.
And it is at that time that I already see the new painting I am going to paint. Although the hard work begins from that moment on, for a painting to be finished in situ questions have to be answered, one by one. Composition, colors, accents, textures…yet the best occurs when during work flow problems get solved by themselves. Itbis that type of painting when brush seems to paint on its own, yet the painting proceeds to the best possible direction. Which needs a lot of former study and hard work to be accomplished before even starting the canvad, yet is the most rewarding and happy moment for the painter.
And this canvas is among those painted seemingly by itself. Giving me the joy of creation I worked on it during last summer. The size is big enough that looking at it one gets immediately the same feeling as if the real bouquet would be in the room, wrapping our senses in the song of summer colors and shapes……..
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Summer bouquet, oil on canvas, 2019, painting detail
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Sketchbook drawing, pencil and watercolor study, March 2020
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On the Table, Flowers, Colored Pencils on Paper, from the New Normal Series 2020
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Colored pencils drawings on paper is the technique I’ve used for my recent painting series New Normal. I just love the simplicity of a colored line on the paper at one side and the sublime color possibilities of the old fashioned coloured pencils on the other side.
It’s a sort of vis a vis of the simple idea of the elemental drawing on the paper towards the complexity of the depicited scenery and hidden emotions. And just this seems to be the real, true physical synapse where interfere my feelings and the investigating of the painting possibilities given by the certain moment of time, namely the time of isolation due to Covid epidemic.
I like certain fragility of the drawings achieved with coloured pencils. Or, if you wish, I like having the courage to use simple colored pencils to express some serious message about my personal feelings of unease, perhaps even fear due to the uncertainity of the given situation. And yet it all seems so normal……
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New Normal, new painting series made in isolation, at times of global pandemic, spring/summer 2020.
My new painting series talks about the new times. New times when everything seems perfectly normal, yet there is a certain feeling in the air. Something telling these new times are different. Not bad, not worse, but different….And there is no detail confirming what is different now, and as much we want, we cannot determine where lies the code for that new sensation……
New Normal, new painting series,colored pencils and pencil on paper, 32 x 40 cm, 20
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I paint flowers so they will not die. Frida Kahlo
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
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June bouquet and a lemon, oil on linen painting, 55 x 55 cm (21.6 x 21.6 inches)
Ah, all that abundance of the colors of the flowers of June! Take the roses, to start with: cadmium red, pale pink, magenta, then all the yellows of the common bird’s- foot trefoil, whites of queen Anne’s lace, purple comfrey, green grasses! Vertigo of a bold palette, trembling in the early summer sunlight. Colors that promise a long summer to come……
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent van Gogh
I always notice flowers. Andy Warhol
