“A painting is like the surface of a VISION”

    - LETTERS FROM THE ARTIST-

In this first letter I’d like to share my reflexions on the Italian movement of ‘Chiaroscuro’

The bright tones bear witness to a truth revealed to me by grace.

Like a rise to the summit where everything is clear - everything is distinguished and discerned.

Like the transparency of a childish state of mind, and its symbol of innocence. The truth is luminous not by its content but by its revelation. It brings clarity and a new perspective, a possibility to rise.

Then the darker tones – the midnight blues, these nuances which I cannot do without when I speak the language of pictorial art.

Darkness and its accomplice light; the mystery of their complexity like a risky or loving relationship. Providence brought them together, for better and for worse.

To what extent do I unmask myself through chiaroscuro?

But I don't unmask myself at all, since I'm not a spectator. But maybe you feel the desire to be unmasked through a canvas? Yes, please remain passive, and let me do the action!

In other words ; please let go and leave it to me;  and let's go back to chiaroscuro…..

But that doesn’t mean anything, since the color chart is not Master,

but the gesture!

The gesture I apply; this attack on a blank canvas, without fear,

The unbridled gesture is therefore the master, the intuition which leads it like an innate choreography, as virile as it is self-controlling.

But no ! But no! You have to control your gesture!

Too late.

I have already left my will to master everything,

I have left my will; to submit to another power, beyond the will.

And the pen moves on a white sheet, the fingers hammer a melodic line on the piano and the paint bursts onto my cotton canvas.

And the very action – the gesture in its sweet madness – proves the other masters WRONG!

And this is how I can bear witness to another space,

There, where conformism and doctrine has no place.

Only intuitive but divine gestures

Gently led by the feminine hand

Into the irresistible darkness

I mix the shades

With mastered clarity

With sincerity and pleasure,

Your Artist