Artist's Statement

Human figure and face as well as Nature fascinated me from my childhood. Thus it became my habit to draw and paint them often as I wished, from imagination or photographs or illustrations in books. My parents encouraged me and gave me colour –box, brush, pencil, paper etc. But I received formal training in art much later in my young age, when I decided to take it as my profession.

I worked as a realistic illustrator in various corporate designing companies and news paper house, as well as a freelancer in my early days of struggling to earn my living. I created numerous commissioned portraits then mainly from photographs given to me, both in oil and acrylic medium. To illustrate accurately I had to observe the various still and moving gesture-posture of human figure, their dresses and rituals; streets and vehicles, buildings and bridges, bazaars etc. of urban life and also of village life, in short the outer world beyond me which enriched my experience and prompted me to search into my inner world. For this I occasionally sat before canvas and did some paintings. Eventually, I started as a full-time professional painter and began the journey into my inner world, that I still continue.

I work in different mediums such as oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, water colour both on paper and canvas. I paint whichever appeals me – figure of a woman or man, animal, still life etc. and I paint them in the context of present time. From the core of my heart I feel attracted to the archaeological objects as well as folk artefacts of my country. So images of these things come spontaneously in my works simultaneously with objects which we see in our everyday life. I consciously explore the significance of their co-existence in my painting-surface. It may be the continuation of time, dialectics or evolution of social structure, may be a metaphor of a definite object or just a piece of imagination to please one-self. I do leave them for interpretation by viewers. I also use famous paintings of past in the modern context of time. I intentionally use different colour patch to avoid the unnecessary detailing to my painting and to intensify the relationship between outer and inner space of objects appearing in paintings as well as to establish a different perspective generating from the mystery of reality.

I started as a painter who used to love painting realistically or semi-realistically. But I do believe there is no restriction to creating form and space or perspective as I am continuing my journey in the field of art.