My passion of creating art is steadfast and tireless, like the steams and rivers. Creating art always makes the world seem just right because it is my essential day to day job.
Predominately my work is filled with my hope and dreams as well as the beauty of nature. I love walking in woods, listening to the prayers of the earth. Overhead the branches sway and a breeze whisper in the leaves. I hear something in the sounds of breezes and birds and water. The earth is praying. Consequently, green has become my favourite colour. To me green is more than a colour. Green is a spiritual healing potion. I feel life, and the beginning of miracle.
Currently I'm working on the relationship between my work and the square paintings from another artist, Matt Luton. Matt Luton's painting are made by layering glazes of different coloured vertical or horizontal oil paint onto a coloured ground. Our work begins from our existence in our everyday environment. At one point there must be an interaction between our work. My task is to find and present this particular relationship in depth.
Fine art degree course gives me a great opportunity to explore myself, and to communicate with the world more effectively. I love being in a fine art studio, the smell, where things are, everything, it seems like the art work is talking to me and I feel this is where i belong.
A range of fine artists such as O'keeffe and Kupka have influenced me. The work of Georgia O'keeffe is an individual one, expressing personal emotions and perceptions in a style that combines strength and crystalline clarity. The sources of her imagery lie in the world of nature, but nature interpreted with great freedom, from precise realism to abstraction as pure as music. Frantisek Kupka demonstrates a painting, like music again, has a capacity to convey its meanings entirely through formal means, from there, to organic and geometric abstraction. Both of them have gained a secure place in the history of modern painting.
Everytime when I sit in front of my green painting, I see all my dreams come true. Within my work, I hope that my blessing and the happiness can be felt in our souls. I often question myself, "Why i love painting so much?" Then I look at my painting again, and I realise the question has already has been answered at the bottom of my heart, "Painting a picture is one of the greatest prayers of all". |
