In the Making - On a new series of paintings and sculptural forms

I am currently working on a new series. Slowly, attentively, and with deep affection for the process itself — a process that cannot be rushed. It is a time when paintings emerge from silence, from layers, from repeated returns, and when painting naturally begins to extend into space. Alongside canvases, objects and sculptures are taking shape, touching the same themes but speaking in a different language.

Parts of this new series are already beginning to exist beyond the studio. I have submitted works to Jackson’s Art Prize, the Luxembourg Art Prize, and Beautiful Bizarre, where these pieces are now being presented within a wider international context. I see this not as a destination, but as an opening — a gentle sharing of a process that is still unfolding.

Surrealism, for me, is less a style and more a way of thinking. It is a way of working with dreams, memory, and the subtle tension between what is visible and what remains hidden. I am drawn to moments when a painting is not yet finished, when it seems to speak back and reveal what it needs. At the same time, I am increasingly interested in materiality — its fragility and resistance — and in translating painterly thinking into three-dimensional form.

This new series remains open. It is not a closed narrative, but a landscape still being entered. And that openness is what I love most about the act of creating.