Painting is my venue of expressing myself, my personal thoughts and emotions. I use paint, drawing, mixed media, collage, and sometimes I scrape the canvas to leave visible traces of my "pentimenti", afterthoughts, changes, as if the act of creating art were a work in progress. There might be resemblances to the school of abstract expressionism in the manner in which I establish a direct relationship with the flat surface of the canvas, as the gestural brushstrokes indicate.

My latest set of paintings created between April and September 2010 are inspired by the recent events of the oil spill. I felt the urge to express my deepest sorrow for the ocean life being imperiled by human unconcerned actions, and the urge to heighten our concern and care for our environment.