A quick retrospective of my work
During the period of the COVID lockdown, I began to turn a distracted and mindless hobby into my main activity. . In that period of misery and isolation I met my new artist self. I shredded the skin of the recovery practitioner and underneath I found the artist.
I began my artistic experience by drawing an erotic collection that, although it gave me a great satisfaction to draw it, I prefer to maintain private, not only for the risqué subjects of the pictures, but, mostly, because I don’t think it is a presentable body of work. It was nothing more than a Tom of Finland type of drawing about guys having acrobatic sex, as original as MacDonald. Never less, such doodles injected me the desire to do more and to do better.
In March 2022 I spent 3 months in Pipa, a surfers beach on the north-east cost of Brazil, This tropical experience has influenced my work profoundly. My palett became tropical, my themes infused of the local mystic tradition and beliefs: a dance of old African tribal gods appeared to me wanting to be given a shape and a face; dance, music, tradition of a new land inhabited by the African oldest population….so many elements were asking to be illustrated. .
At my return i began to include oil paintings in my media. My love for oil was at first sight. Despite the fact that my very first attempt with oil turned out to be a grey-ish meatloaf with undefined shape, I understood the intrinsic potential of oil. I could have build a picture just with one colour, forming the image just by using different brush strokes. The plasticity of oil is unique and I found it deeply satisfactory.
I also progressed with my digital work. I designed a logo for it and, all I have to do now is to become internationally famous
