ABOUT

I've been drawing most of my life, even before discovering music in my childhood. I still remember doing presentations to my classmates on Fernand Léger, van Gogh and Salvador Dalí before I was 12 years old. It is only natural that I would have evolved toward studying the arts and dedicating myself to painting with full force.​

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As a jazz musician and avid improviser, I find incredible similarities between free-association painting and musical improvisation. In both, I search to create a narrative using certain chords or colors, contrasts and harmony, rhythm and form--all while trying to find that hidden dimension, what lies behind the notes. Ultimately, my work and search as a musician and as an artist deeply inform and complement one another.  In painting, I find refuge from the loudness of life and music. Aside from the sounds of the brush on the canvas, the experience is like a visual meditation. The challenge in music and in painting, and possibly in life in general, is to transcend the functional to reach the inspired.