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 completed the Art programme at the College of FET in Limerick and am now continuing my studies in Painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD).

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.