I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Since childhood, I have always been creating something — sketching, painting, shaping the world with my hands and imagination. It all started in a children’s art group, where I was lucky to learn from a wonderful teacher, Eleonora Eduardovna. Then came the Livanu Art School — and it gave me something invaluable. It laid the foundation I still stand on today: an understanding of structure, of relationships, of visual language. Most importantly, it gave me the ability to truly see — something almost impossible to acquire later in life. That gift continues to guide everything I do.

After that came years of creative exploration — countless courses and workshops, both online and in person, with some of the greatest living masters. I am currently studying Art at the College of FET in Limerick.

But for me, learning never ends. I learn constantly — from nature, from people, from books and music, from conversations, from the quiet attention that painting asks of me. I learn from the old masters and the living ones, from the lost and the found.

A few years ago, I fell in love with plein air painting — and it changed everything. Painting outdoors brings me back to something essential — clear, honest, and alive. It’s not just about capturing what I see; it’s about listening, sensing, understanding. Each time I set up my easel, I stand at a new point of growth. There’s always a new challenge, a new problem to solve, a new discovery waiting in each place I paint.

Plein air painting has brought me into the company of many wonderful people — fellow artists, kindred spirits — and revealed a different state within me, a different kind of painting: more alive, more present, more real.

My work is about those moments — the ones that shift and disappear. A shadow passing over a wall. The sudden line where sunlight cuts across stone. The way the world fades gently into itself on a foggy morning. These are the moments that blur the line between seeing and feeling. Painting helps me hold them, just for a second.

And I hope, through my paintings, to pass that feeling on — the stillness, the clarity, the quiet joy of being completely present in the world — and to share it with you, as if we are both standing there together, in the same light, in the same breath of the world.