ARTIST STATEMENT

I have been painting in oils since early childhood, my first oil painting was completed at the age of twelve. From the beginning, my work has been shaped by a deep fascination with realism - not as imitation, but as a disciplined way of seeing. What has always interested me is attention: to light, to atmosphere, to those quiet moments where perception deepens and the visible begins to reveal something beyond itself.

My work is not about painting water in a thousand different colors and perspectives alone. It is about awareness, patience, contemplation and appreciation. It is about opening the viewer’s eye to detail, to the subtle structures of form and to the sensitive symphonies of halftones. Meaning unfolds in nuance. In restraint. In the smallest transitions where silence becomes visible.

I work with classical oil glazing techniques, using carefully selected pigments, natural resin and oil and layered glazing processes. The quality I have reached today did not come by chance. It is the result of decades of discipline, persistence and an uncompromising commitment to reach excellence. I have worked relentlessly to arrive at a visual language that is unmistakably my own - an artistic identity that cannot be confused or substituted.

Water and especially the sea has become the central field in which this language unfolds. I chose it for two reasons: first, because alongside human portraits it is one of the most demanding subjects an artist can attempt - its movement, strength and simultaneous softness make it extremely difficult to render convincingly. Few have succeeded in capturing water’s power in art history, its healing qualities, and its constant change. And I wanted to achieve that and I have, but still on my way. Second, I wanted to go beyond technical perfection. I wanted to capture moments that touch the soul, that bring us close to nature, to our roots and to the essential rhythms of life.

At the same time, I am deeply concerned about the state of the oceans. Humanity has caused great damage and our natural world - forests, seas and wildlife - is fragile. In my paintings, I hope to invite conscious looking, to encourage viewers to notice the wonder in detail. In a world where people rush through life, glance at the news, worry briefly, and then look away, my work asks for pause. It asks viewers to feel that what they see - whether in my paintings or in nature - is vulnerable and deserves care.

This approach reaches its most concentrated form in my Reflections series. Here, water becomes a visual and philosophical medium. Reflected surfaces dissolve spatial hierarchies, merging sky, horizon, and depth into quiet, almost immaterial compositions. Water turns into a language of color, form and halftone. In the smallest nuances - the barely perceptible shifts of tone, the silent symphony of the visible unfolds.

Learning to truly see the nature`s wonder in detail was one of the most formative processes of my artistic life. Despite technical mastery, nature resisted control and demanded humility rather than dominance. This experience shaped my understanding of realism as an ethical stance: attention becomes respect, precision becomes reverence.

As a woman working with large-scale, technically demanding seascapes - a field long associated with masculine authorship - I encountered structural resistance early in my career. Rather than diverting my path, these experiences intensified my determination to achieve an undeniable level of mastery and to assert full authorship over my work. Excellence became not only an artistic goal, but a form of self-definition.

My paintings have been exhibited internationally and are held in private and public collections. Yet recognition has never been the driving force behind my work. What matters is whether a painting can create stillness - whether it slows perception, invites contemplation and offers a counterpoint to a world and culture defined by speed, noise, excess and consumptive emptiness.

Ultimately, my paintings are invitations. They ask for time. They ask for presence. In the delicate interplay of form, color and halftone, the visible opens toward deeper awareness - where nature, perception and inner experience briefly come into balance.