“Usually I say that I am engaged in creativity. I am not used to boasting that I am an artist.

My position from my youth is to talk less, work more. Energy should go to what interests you the most.

There are performing artists who conceive something and write from the top corner to the bottom. I improvise. I start with one, but when I pour or put paint, it suggests new, unexpected things.

Color, like an offended horse, resists, does not obey. You need to find a common language with him. Only at the age of 42 did I feel the thrill of working with color. Curiosity helped to pass this difficult path. Every morning in the workshop I discovered something new.

I started experimenting with paints while still in school. As a result, I almost lost my skills and decided that I should not draw. Went to the army to have time to think. Served in Riga. Spring has come there – white puddles, a red roof, a blue sky. My heart ached so much and I couldn’t take it anymore. I decided: I will study, but draw – for myself.

I once thought that I could achieve everything with my mind. Studied art, became a colorist. But it did not give anything but quality work. When he let go of the mind, intuition began to find unexpected solutions. I held it back until I was with the color on you.

I managed to create a meditative landscape that was not there before me. Now I am composing spots to give details only for the entrance, so that you can immerse yourself in a state above the vanity of man. I am finishing the stage of the landscape and I want to realize what I am doing to the end with a series of dozens of large canvases.”

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