LOUNGE MAGAZINE

The value of a painting begins in risk, in personality and in a way of seeing that cannot be repeated.

An artist's freedom is not a state of comfort. It is tension. It can be a gift, but more often it resembles a kind of inner compulsion: a refusal to accept the ready-made picture of the world, other people's definitions, the social hypnosis of the obvious. The artist throws the existing reality off balance. He touches places that are dormant, suspect, too easily accepted. He draws the hidden movement out of them.

- "In my studio thought does not remain an abstraction. It is not an ornament of the intellect or a literary caption beneath a painting. It appears like an impulse: sometimes as a sentence in a sketchbook or on the wall. Sometimes as a gesture, or a sudden cut of colour. It lives between the paintings. It passes through the body, the matter, the space. Thought takes part in the process."

photo: Wirginia Bryll