"The face is the place where the soul comes closest to the skin."
Rainer Maria Rilke
A portrait is never a simple record: it is an act of negotiation between the one who looks and the one who is seen, between the visible surface and what remains concealed. In these works the face becomes a field of forces — tensions between identity and mask, between presence and absence, between what the subject reveals and what the painted matter exposes against their will. The gesture does not describe: it questions. Every brushstroke is a question left open on the canvas.
Portraits — Oil, acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Every face holds a secret that painting does not resolve, but preserves.
