One with the universe through my art.

I started painting when I was four, joyfully encouraged by my family.
At fourteen I became aware of the fact that my future career would be painting.
For many years I made drawings and paintings in black and white and proved to be an expert on light and shadow, later I moved to oils that exclusively fulfilled my craving to express myself.

I don’t make any sketching I go headlong into the unknown that my brush starts to formulate on the canvas.

Oil colors always appealed to me because they have a life of their own, they adapt perfectly to feature any texture whether the object painted is transparent or opaque and of any known material.
Brushes of all shapes and sizes are my basic tools. With no planning whatsoever the colors in front of me move to the canvas, and mix- or- separate- on it… All through the process I stop only when the painting points out: I’m achieved… I stop and never add an extra line or touch of paint.

Usually I’m driven to the white canvas with no planning or prenotions about its future contents. I’m there to surprise myself by what my hands can make inspired by music and my relationship with the world within me and around me.

Music instigates and inspires me while working, my favorites are the blues, hard rock, Bob Dylan and his beautiful lyrics ( I have an urge sometimes to integrate his words within the structure of a painting.)
The spiritual ecstasy attained by the Dervish dancing, and by listening to Sufi music has been through the last seven years of my life a source of inspiration and a world of meditation, relaxation and a means for attaining a state of mental purity from which all creativity springs out.

When asked about the message behind or the purpose of a certain painting, I’ve always asserted that it is- in the purest sense of the words- the outcome of a state of being that the deliberations of mind can not define.

In nature I breathe the fresh air.. I enjoy smells and colors and sounds but it is better to live in nature than to frame it into paintings…

The inner life of human beings expressed on their faces and hands is highly inspiring to me… I’ve always since I was a child sailed into faces and gestures…And when I discovered that I can do all the sailing by gazing into my own face and hands, the mirror became my source of inspiration. Basically one human being stands, for humanity as a whole… Actually for the whole universe.

I’m not into conceptual art, my paintings, like music, are to be received by the viewers’ senses and life experiences.

Any painting I ever made is a universe in which I make a new discovery each time I look at it.