'My paintings focus on the complicated relationship between man and nature. I want the viewer to lose himself in the paintings, feeling involved and yet distant from them, able to appreciate the divide between man's situation and the reality of nature. The dialogue between man and nature has never been very good, but despite the gulf between them, they can still face each other and justify the other's existence. In my work, I try to capture a sense of the beauty of tragedy, almost like depicting a madman splitting his sides with laughter. In the same way, from a new viewpoint, it is possible to admire the courage involved in extreme despair or to perceive the usefulness of danger. The world of the paintings becomes deformed by the strange and frightening shapes which invade the canvas. These strange shapes can be seen as a kind of humour or, at the same time, as the focus of an illness. This duality of images is essential to my work, as I try to combine contradictory elements, such as beauty and horror, good and evil, focussing my attention somewhere between abstract and concrete.'

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'My paintings focus on the complicated relationship between man and nature. I want the viewer to lose himself in the paintings, feeling involved and yet distant from them, able to appreciate the divide between man's situation and the reality of nature. The dialogue between man and nature has never been very good, but despite the gulf between them, they can still face each other and justify the other's existence. In my work, I try to capture a sense of the beauty of tragedy, almost like depicting a madman splitting his sides with laughter. In the same way, from a new viewpoint, it is possible to admire the courage involved in extreme despair or to perceive the usefulness of danger. The world of the paintings becomes deformed by the strange and frightening shapes which invade the canvas. These strange shapes can be seen as a kind of humour or, at the same time, as the focus of an illness. This duality of images is essential to my work, as I try to combine contradictory elements, such as beauty and horror, good and evil, focussing my attention somewhere between abstract and concrete.'