BOTH WAYS

In my painting. I have observed two different, but naturally inclusive methods of creating a picture. The first one is spontaneous and in fact happenes during the actual process of putting paint on canvas. In the second method the most important part of the creative process takes place between paintings. This time is filled with gradual working out of an idea for a picture, searching for an appropriate form-symbolical, rich i meaning, archetypal, rooted in culture, freed form the unnnecessary and looking for the right colours.

Later in paiting is joy of giving shape to a picture created and carried in my mind and eart. There are very few corrections, onyly finishing touches. The first method is based on spontaneity, expression and emotions; it prodces diffferent effectsand seems tobe more appropriate for paintings.Ealier considerations fdo not play an important role, although deep layers of the conscious and unconscious are my inspiration and I try to reach them and free them in this creative process. Spontaneous work seems to prepare ground for the voice of heart, and a process of thinking about what is being created becomes important in the final stages when I observe the picture and read it. Inspiration may come fromrecent events, situations, a meeting, sing or music- especially music heard during the process of painting; music which bring associations, trans-like states,revelations and rhythms regulatingthe intensity of work.All of that brought onto the surface of the painting, penetrates it, blurs into it, overlapsand recurs till one story becomes prominent and the picture begins to live its own life, starts to speak and leads to a point in which no corrections, no even the slightest changes are necessary and then....one can onyly watch with unceasingamazement.