My path in Art
My creative journey is not a straightforward one, but that makes it even more interesting and inspiring.
I studied personnel management for six years and worked in an advertising agency for five years afterwards. It was a great period of my life but I felt that my soul was demanding something else.
So in 2017 I quit my job and “the great search” of my true self began.
I moved to the wonderful city of Amsterdam and started studying 3D animation. The course gave me lots of knowledge about characters, composition and storytelling. Still, it was not exactly what I was searching for.
Then I switched my focus to experiments with stop-motion animation, in parallel working in a vintage store. This combo turned out to be rather fruitful, since the job provided me with unique visual material which I could use in my creative work. Furthermore, the working encounters at the vintage store led to my first artistic commissions.
One day I was making an animation for a jewelry brand: moving objects manually, creating live story frame by frame. And then, while struggling to arrange the given objects into the harmonious composition, I suddenly realized that I wanted to do the very opposite. I felt an urge to combine the most incompatible, incongruous things, be it plants, birds, vintage tape recorders, armadillos, Renaissance dresses or costumes from the 70s. To combine them the way I like, contrary to everything familiar. This is how my first collage appeared, followed by many others.
Naturally, all the knowledge that I accumulated on my way enabled me to create these surreal pictures.
Creating collages is my main focus now. I am walking around the flea markets of Amsterdam, hunting for old books and vintage magazines to transform them into the next collage.
